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Blunkett backs apologetic Woodhead over sex gaffe

David blunkett; the Secre-
tary of State for Education,
gave his backing yesterday to
Chris Woodhead after the Chief

Inspector of Schools apologised
for saying that sexual relation-
ships between teachers and
pupils could be “educative".

. Mr Blunkett said that Mr

1/ Woodhead would continue to
make a very important contri-
bution towards raising class-
room standards.

BY JUDITH JUDD

and Coun Brown

On Wednesday, Mr Wood-
head may face further ques-
tioning when he appears before

a committee of MPs which is in-
vestigating his Office for Stan-
dards in Education. Tomorrow,
he wifi defiver his annual report
on the state of schools.

Mr Woodhead accepted yes-
terday that he had made a mis-

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THROUGH THE fog. you could
hear the voices from half a mile
away. “With our blood, with
our soul, we sacrifice ourselves
for toil”

And as the mist swept around
me - such wind, such very thick
fog - I could see tiny squares
above the thousands of shroud-
ed figures outside the hospital
Their peelers portrayed the dead
king who lay only a few hundred
metres from us; fighter pilot
Hussein, Bedouin warrior Hus-
sein, Field Marshal Hussein.
rBut not a single photograph of
the king and liis son together.
The new King Abdullah - how
strange that name sounds - was
not in the thoughts of the
screaming men or of the old
woman who prostrated herself in
die torrent of freezing water
streaming down Lhe roadway'.

INSIDE

‘You could feel the
greatness in him’

Grieving nation
brought to a halt

page 2

Obituary

Review, page 6

? l>f course, he was part of the
protocol. He wore his father's
red kcffiuch headdress to the
assemble building to be sworn
in by its obedient parliamen-
tarians. saluting for the last
film* before liis father's portrait
Amt the kings and presidents
are preparing to fly into
Amman fora state funeral that
will be replete with the kind of
rhetoric King Hussein loathed.
And we shall all watch his son.

King Abdullah. It has a
strange resonance; of another
king almost half a century a 8°
at the At Aqsa mosque in
Jerusalem. Abdullah s great-
grandfather. with a bullet in his
head and his turban rotting
awavfrum him. while a teenage
boy- now the bald corpse in*
side the hospital behind us -
•Elapses in horror. Jerusalem
lay only GO miles away

BV ftOBERT FtSK
in Amman

through the suffocating, frozen
fog, as lost to the Jordanians
today as it was when King Hus-
sein’s army retreated almost
three decades ago.

So now this odd, fragile,
brave, often infuriating little
land has another British mili-
tary graduate to run its af-
fairs. Sandhurst, Oxford,
Georgetown, tank commander
and general with his very own
Praetorian Guard. His special
forces - one of those supposedly
“crack” units which breed all
over the Middle East -have put
down a riot or two over the past
few years, and you couldn't
help wondering how Abdullah
would have dealt with the
crowds outside the King Hus-
sein Medical Centre yester-
day.

They pushed at the police
lines, they sobbed into their
hands , they collapsed fainting
on to the mud outside the gates.
I thought one of the policemen
was just mouthing something
he'd heard on the television
when he told me that King
Hussein had been a father to
him. And then I realised that
behind his thin-framed spec-
tacles he was crying.

\bu only had to watch these
people - and the uncontrol-
lable nature of their grief - to
understand how heavy will be
the burden for King Abdullah.
Tb a Westerner to a tourist Jor-
dan is a friendly little sandpit
of Roman ruins, rock palaces,
camels and an old railway
blown up by another English of-
ficer, Colonel Lawrence.

But these are also a wound-
ed people. 65 per cent of whom
can count their Palestinian dis-
possession in their family tree.
Abdullah has inherited from his
father a Jordanian-Israeli
peace treaty which many of his
people -and a good few in the
fog outside the hospital, I dare
say - would like to tear to
pieces.

Already the new king is re-
ceiving the dangerous praises
of Jordan’s friends - from Iraq,
from Syria, from Israel from
president Clinton. How they

take as he tried to reassure one
member of Ms student-teacher
audience and said that -the
views he had expressed were
not his true views. He hoped
that he would be judged on bis
contribution as chief inspector
and not on a 30-second remark.

He told GMTV’s Sunday
Programme: “1 readily admit I
made a mistake. I can only apol-
ogise for giving the wrong im-
pression, but I hope I can

explain why I said what I (fid on
that occasion.”

During a question-and-an-
swer session with 200 trainee
t e ach ers at Exeter University
21 days ago, one asked: “There
has been a recent debate on
teacher-pupil relationships of a
certain nature. Do you think
that any teacher wbo has been
involved in such unpleasant
action should have apy place in
the education system?”

In the course of his reply, Mr
Woodhead suggested that the
“messes” resulting from such
relationships could be "educa-
tive”. Legislation which would'
make relationships between
tea tilers and under-10-year-
olds a c riminal offence anrt
cany ajail sentence of up to two
years is at present before Par-
liament

Mr Tibodhead told GMTVS ”A
student asked a question after

the lecture I had given and I
thought that there was a per-
sonal dimension to the ques-
tion, that there may be a
problem here and I tried to re-
assure that student in the an-
swer I gave And I readily admit
that in trying to do that I over-
stepped the mark.”

He believed that teachers
were in a position of authority
over pupDs and it was important
this was not abused.

King Abdullah pays respects in front of a portrait of his father after being sworn in yesterday

Reuters

love the new young king how
they honour him and wish him
weH “The life and soul of any
party” a friend of the famity put
it to me last week, “Ab du lla h 's
a great man for jokes.” Tine,
Abdullah wifi need a sense of
humour But he will also have
to learn to be hated and de-
spised. like King Hussein.

His dead father; after an,
was repudiated for his disas-
trous participation in the 1967
war and for his support for
Saddam Hussein after the 1990
invasion of Kuwait. How we
hated him then. Then the King
made peace with Israel and in-
curred the wrath of many of his
own people. How we loved him
then.

What did Abdullah think
when he heard those easy tele-
vision cliches about Ms brave

but often misunderstood (and
oft-betrayed) father yesterday,
words - these are authentic
quotations- that m some cases
came from the very reporters
who che erful ly predicted his
demise in 1991? “Unassailable
moral authority", “a visionary
for peace” “a man of great
charisma" with an “unques-
tioned” legacy a man who “al-
ways wanted to give his people
the rights that they deserved”.

What was that legacy again?
Unquestioned? And what po-
litical rights did his people re-
ceive, save for a vote for a
rubber-stamp parliament and
the knowledge that the secret
police would not call at three in
the morning. Yet if any of the
Jordanian “men-in-the-street”
talking to the news networks
about King Abdullah here yes-

terday had strayed from the
permitted path -just like his te-
ther; a soldier-king, a chip off the
old block in feet - then they
would have been taken off to
His Majesty’s constabulary for
a thumping.

Just before the King^s death,
Abdullah had invited Washing-
ton and New Ytek journalists to
meet him for an off-the-record
chat about the future, an ami-
able occasion, since American
journalists tend to write and
talk like State Department
spokesmen. Ruth in the “peace
process”, trust in the West
anxious for good relations with
ail his neighbours, sympathy for
the Iraqi people but no love for
Saddam; it was predictable
stuff.

But the real world is not that
simple. Jordanians don’t hate

Saddam and many of them
have regained their old hostil-
rty and distrust of an Israel that
goes on building West Bank
Jewish settlements on land
which many Jordanians own.

I didn’t like that fog outside
the hospital yesterday evening,
and I walked back through the
sleet to find a car that would
taipp. me to Amman. It was a
Palestinian in a rusty Peugeot
who stepped forme. A Jordan-
ian radio news broadcast was
blasting from his transistor:
“They say Abdullah is just like
his father;" Nidal shouted above
the radio. “They say the coun-
try is unified, that everything
wfll go on as before." Then he
gave his right hand a little
twist the way Arabs do when
they want to indicate an open
question. “Maybe," he said.

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He added: “I didn’t for one
moment think that the com-
ments I made to that student
would be leaked to The Inde-
pendent newspaper and
splashed over the pages of
every other paper in the land.”
Mr Blunkett said Mr Wood-
head had given a very dear ex-
planation of his remarks and
had apologised. “He has obvi-
ously made - and I am confi-
dent he will continue to make

- a very important contribution
to the scrutiny of our schools
and the drive to improve stan-
dards within them. Despite
what Chris Woodhead has ac-
knowledged to be an unfortu-
nate incident, I believe it does
not prevent him from continu-
ing to do his job effectively.”
Unworldly teacher, page 3
Leading article,
Anne McEhrag
Review; page 3

MPs prescribed
Viagra by doctor
in the House

By Coun Brown
C hief Political Correspondent

A LABOUR MP who is also a GP
has been bombarded, dis-
creetly of course, with requests
from colleagues wanting to get
their hands on the anti-impo-
tence drug, Viagra.

Howard Stoate, who is the
MP for Dartford and still a
* practising family docto; has prir
vately prescribed the diamond-
shaped bhiepflk far at least two
of bis colleagues after they
approached him for help. Dr
Stoate prescribed Viagra pri-
vately “a couple of times” to the
MPs because, as he is not their
famil y doctor, he is prevented
from prescribing it on the NHS.

“They were not Saturday
night funsters. They were peo-
ple who would seriously qualify
for Viagra. They are not people
saying T can onfy manage it
twicea night, doc -canyon giwe
me something to manage it
four times a night’,” he said.

“The difficulty is there is no
really coherent medical system
for MPS available in the House
if they are 200 rmles away from
home. You can go to Boots and
see what they can do for you, or
you can sit in casually in St
Thomas' Hospital or you can
find a local GF and sign on as
a temporary resident, but they

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that to a.GP who they have
never met before. There is a
real gap in the Commons.”

He refuses to divulge the
names of the MPs to whom he
prescribed the drug, saying he
must protect confidentiality
but that will not stop a back-
bench whispering campaign to
identify the Viagra users in the
Parliamentary Labour Party In
an interview for The House
magazine Dr Stoate said he had
only been approached by peo-
ple in his own party.

Dr Stoate is talking to the
Commons administration com-
mittee about allowing him the
right to prescribe on the NHS
at the House. There is a Com-
mons nurse, but she cannot
prescribe and most MPs would
almost certainty be too embar-
rassed to ask ber for Viagra.

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THE DEATH OF KING HUSSEIN

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AS NEWS of King Hussein’s
death spread through Amman
yesterday, masses, of mourning
Jordanians ventured out in (he
driving rain and mist many car-
rying black flags.

Thousands droVe to the al-
Hussein medical centre on the
outskirts of Amman to wait for
his body to be removed.

In the markets in the heart
of the capital, traders pulled
down the metal shutters of
their businesses and dosed as
a sign of respect for their king.

Fbr almost half a centuzy he
had manoeuvred his small
country; often changing al-
liances, to protect it from more
powerful neighbours, notably
Israel and Iraq.

“He was a very special
man," said a father as he wait-
ed to pick up his children from
a school that had just dosed

The 63-year-old monarch
died at 11.43am yesterday after
lying unconscious for more
than two days in hospital. He
had flown back from the Unit-
ed States to die in Jordan last
week when a bone-marrow

transplant atari Ampi-i ran nHn-

ic failed to halt his lymphatic
cancer

Crown Prince Abdullah, his
37-year-old eldest son, was im-
mediately proclaimed the new
king by the cabinet He later
went to swear to respect the
constitution before the Jor-

By Patrick Cocke urn
in Amman

daman parliament where
deputies wrapped their red-
an d -white keffiyehs (head-
dresses) across their faces in a
traditional sign of sorrow.

President Bill Clinton, Ibqy
Blair and the Prince of Wales
will be among the many world
figures attending today's fu-
neral in Amman.

“No words can convey what
King Hussein meant to the
people be led for nearly half a
century," said Mr Clinton. “No
words can convey what he
meant to me as a friend and an
inspiration.”

Even Iraq, so often at odds
with Jordan, has sent Vice-
President Taha Mohieddin
Ma’rouf for the funeral

Work in the Jordanian capi-
tal wiU halt txxlay as King Hus-
sein is buried. Despite forecasts
fbrmore heavy rain, most of the
population of the capital is ex-
pected to attend. One Jordan-
ian official said: “We face a
logistics problem - not a secu-
rity problem."

However officials do face
concerns over the expected
presence of Benjamin Ne-
tanyahu, the Israeli Prime Min-
ister, amid so many Arab
leaders who detest him.

The funeral cortege will
wind through the streets of

Mourners surge towards police outside the al-Hnssein medical centre in Amman, where the King died yesterday. Some women fainted with grief

Jockcl Pink

Amman according to a sched-
ule which officials have been
preparing ever since it was an-
nounced that the King's treat-
ment had failed and he was
close to death.

The grief shown in Amman
yesterday displays King Hus-
sein's genuine popularity mixed
with public apprehension over
the future.

Outside the hospital women
sobbed and feinted Other Jor-
danians, who are not used to the
cold, groped their forward in the
winter mist to express sorrow.

Police prevented vehicles from
being driven iq> to the hospital

Groups of young men
formed under the awnings of
small shops around theal-Hus-
sexn mosque, talking softly and
anxiously. Elsewhere, people
looked worried rather than
deeply shocked by the news of
the King’s demise.

This may be because his
death had been expected In-
deed, many Jordanians be-
lieved that las died several days
ago. This is because the Jor-
danian media had given less

coverage of the King's Alness
than many foreign newspa-
pers.

When he returned uncon-
scious from America, local
newspapers, radio and televi-
sion said he was seriously ffl,
but gave no details.

If the government had hoped
to allay public alarm, its cen-
sorship had exactly the opposite
effect

Starved of information about
the one topic in which people
were interested street rumour
ran ahead of the feds, “I'm sure

he’s already dead and the gov-
ernment fa keeping quiet about
it," said one woman, 24 hours
before the death was an-
nounced

Jordanians are shaken not
only by the news of their king's
death, but by a series of dra-
matic events over the past
three weeks.

first there was his return
from apparently successful
cancer treatment in the US
last month.

He had lost an his hair dur-
ing chemotherapy, and he

looked pale and walked as if
each movement was an effort
But he stood to greet hundreds
of officials and leaders at the
airport Then be drove through
the streets of Amman - as rain-
soaked as they were again yes-
terday.

He then surprised Jordani-
ans by installing as his heir
Prince Abdullah - the com-
mander of Jordan's Special Op-
erations Command who was
said to be without political in-
terests - in place of the King’s
own brother Hassan, who had

been crown prince for 34 years.

Prince Hassan had long been
the most powerful man in Jor-
dan after the King. But during
the monarch’s treatment, re-
lations between the two men
deteriorated.

In a bitter, rambling fetter
King Hussein accused Prince
Hassan of smears against bis
wife. Queen Nonr. and of med-.
dling with the army.

Within days, the monarch's
condition deteriorated and he
returned to the US for final un-
successful surgery.

‘You could feel the greatness in him’

World Who’s Who At funeral

Acc

world leaders mourned
King Hussein yesterday paying
tribute to a courageous vision-
ary who pursued peace in a
volatile region. Many sent per-
sonal messages of condolence
reflecting the warm regard in
which they held him and their
sorrow at his passing.

“I mourn the loss of a part-
ner and a friend,” said Presi-
dent Bfil Clinton. Kofi Annan,
the UN Secretary General
spoke ofhis “deep and personal
sense of grief" at the death of
a man “whose true majesty
found expression in a lifelong
struggle to bring peace".

In Britain, the tributes were

by Kathy Marks

led by Tony Blair, the Prime
Minister, who described King
Hussein as “a man of rare vi-
sion, integrity and courage,
whose leadership over nearly 50
years did so much for Jordan,
its people and the region".

The flag over Buckingham
Palace flew at half-mast as a
mark of respect to a man re-
garded as a special friend to
Britain. The Queen and the
Royal Family were said to be
“deeply saddened".

The Russian President
Boris YWtsin , sent a message to
King Hussein’s son and suc-

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cess or. King Abdullah, telling
him; “Your father... was in-
valuable to the formation of a
new image of the Middle East,
free of stereotypes of con-
frontation and enmity”.

In Isr^thePrime Minister ‘
Benjamin Netanyahu, show-
ered praise on the late King,
saying; “There was no one
more gracious, considerate and
kind, no one.. . more capable of
understanding and empathy.”
And in a moving statement,
Leah Rabin, widow of the as-
sassinated Israeli Prime Min-
ister Yitzhak Rabin, said: “As
soon as you met him, you felt his
courage and the greatness in

him. A great man, with a great
heart and with great modesty."

Elsewhere in the Middle
East, reaction was more
muted. The Egyptian Presi-
dent, Hosni Mubarak, de-
scribed Kuig Hussein as “an
Arab leader who dedicated his
thoughts and life to the service
of his nation’s causes”. •

The Libyan leader; Colonel
Muammar Gaddafi, confined
himsehtohriefcoudolei(ces.In
Syria, Jordan’s powerful neigh-
ami mtic. Foreign
ter Fhrouk Sbaraa said* “TO* are
sad for bis absence and we hope
that King Abdullah will be a
good replacement

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. Iraq’s most influential news-
paper offered sympathy but
warned that Israel might try to
to divide its territory. Babe l
owned by President Saddam
Hussein's eldest son, Udaty said
“Our hearts are with our-brave ‘
people in Jordan who we hope
will overcome this ordeal"
Leaders ofEuropean nations
including France, Spain, Italy,
Germany and the Czech Re-
public paid tribute. President
Thomas Klestil of Austria told
his widow. Queen Node; that
Austria has lost “a great friend,
whose personal solidarity with
our country will always be re-
membered and approbated".

In a testament to King
Hussein's skill in forging
links around the globe, his
funeral in Amman today
will bring together sworn
political enemies such as
President Bill Clinton,
senior Iraqi politicians.
Israeli prime ministers past
and present and the
Palestinian leader. Yasser
Arafat. The Russian
President. Boris Yeltsin, is
also expected to attend,
despite suffering from
poor health.

The hundreds of foreign
dignitaries expected to
attend the funeral include:

Emir Sheik Isa bin Salman
AJ Khalifa of Bahrain; King
Albert and Queen Paole of
8elgium; Tony Blair, the
Conservative leader,

William Hague, and the
Liberal Democrat leader
Paddy Ashdown; The
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Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak; The French
President. Jacques Chirac;
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Vice-President Taha
Mohieddin Ma'rouf: The
Irish President. Mary
McAleese; The Israeli Prime
Minister. Beniamin

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Prime Minister Kefao
Obuchi: The Kuwaiti Crown
Prince Sheik Saad al-
Abdullah ai-Sabah; Queen
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Yasser Arafat: The Russian
President. Boris Yeltsin;

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Prince Abdullah: King Juan
Carlos and Queen Sofia of
Spain; The UN Secretary-
General Kofi Annan; The US
President Bill Clinton and
Hillary Roddam Clinton,
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George Bush. Jimmy Carter
and Gerald Ford.

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An unworldly teacher who became

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CHRIS woodhead rarely apok
^s^He is both admired and
detested because he is a man
who deals in certainties. IBs de-
tractors include most teachers
‘ who see him as the scourge of
the profession who depresses
morale by castigating schools
for low standards and trendy
teaching methods. They argue
thathcconfrontatiocal style in-
volves so much stick and so lit-
tle carrot that he will never
improve schools.

His admirers include politi-
cians of every party who believe
that he is a courageous cru-
sader for parents and children

who, for too long, have had to
put up with an inadequate ed-
ucation system. Fbr some com-
mentators and newspapers he
is a hero whose every word is
revered. He has reportedly
dined with Prince Charles at

Highgrove and he and his part-
ner have taken tea with the
Prime Minis ter

It is true that he is unpopu-
lar with teachers partly be-
cause of the body he heads: the
Office for Standards in Educa-
tion (Ofsted) has brought a new

system of regular inspection to
schools; the bottom line for a
bad inspection report is failure
and sometimes closure. And in-
dividual teachers are graded.

Perhaps teachers need a
hate figure on whom they can
vent their anger about a decade
of change which has over-
turned their world But the
chief inspector's personal style
* must play some part in the dif-
flpficult relationship between the
profession and Ofsted. In
Whies, for instance, where a
similar regime has been
brought in, there has been no
outcry from teachers.

One Labour politician, a
Woodhead fan. said: “Seventy-
five per cent of what he does is
absolutely right. But there are
some question marks over the
rest." Mr Woodhead argues
that he speaks as he does be^
cause that is the only way to
bring improvements in a sys-
tem which is resistant to
change. He also enjoys his
combative role. When he is at-
tacked. he comes out fighting
and relishes a good scrap.

He began his job in 1993 by
writing an article in the DaHy
Mail headlined "Sack the Use-
less Teachers’*. In an interview
at the time he remarked: “An el-
.. ument of threat is not necessarily
i» a bad thing. 1 personally re-
• spond to threats. The education
system has been immune to
any kind uf threat for too long.**

Chris Woodhead talking to a pupil at Park School, Barnstaple. The chief inspector began his career teaching English in several schools

Latec he provoked an outcry
by spying that there were 15,000
bad teachers who should be
sacked and more recently he ar-
gued, to the embarrassment of
ministers, that national tests
were unreliable and that, anyway
some schools were cheating.

He has lambasted primary
schools which are still making
models out of egg boxes instead
of instilling the three Rs in
pupils and pronounced the
money spent educational re-
search a waste. Academics, he
suggested in one of his most
swashbuckling attacks, are at
“the heart of darkness” be-
cause they promote unsound
teaching methods.

But his personality is more
complicated than at first ap-

pears. During his career; he has
been accused of being a liber-
al, a Conservative (under the
previous government) and now
a standard bearer for New
Labour Nearly 20 years ago, he
expressed his fears about edu-
cation under Margaret (now
Baroness) Thatcher thus; “The
economic recession might ex-
plain the present hardening of
attitudes, the backlash against
anything savouring of a pro-
gressive ideology”

While he was deputy head of
English at a Gloucestershire
comprehensive school, Fenel-
la Strange, then a sixth-for-
mer remembers him as “this
charming, other-wonfiy bloke.
The word I would use more
than any other would be ideal-

istic. We considered ourselves
years older than him... one
felt one should hold his hand as
he crossed the road”.

When he was a lecturer in
Oxford University's depart-
ment of education, he handed
round a box of apples to the stu-
dents in the hope that they
would inspire creative writing.

Mr Woodhead is tall, lean,
mildly self-deprecating and
looks younger than 52, per-
haps because of his enthusiasm
for rock-climbing and hill-walk-
ing. He has an enviable grasp
of the English language: one of
the keys to his influence is that
he never uses educational jar-
gon. He is divorced and has one
daughter: His present partner
is Ruth Mislrin, head of a suc-

cessful primary school in the
London borough of Tower
Haml ets.

The son of an accountant
and a school secretary Chris
Woodhead attended Welling-
ton grammar school in Surrey,
where he was caned twice -
once for cheating in a Latin test
and once for turning the
French master’s pictures to
the wall The latter summed
him up in his report in a single
word; “Wild”.

His way to the top has taken
him through the heart of the ed-
ucational establishment which
is the subject of so many of his
criticisms. He read English at
Bristol, followed by a postgrad-
uate certificate of education,
CPGCE) taught English in sev-

eral schools and taught on Ox-
ford University’s PGCE course.

When he left Oxford in 1982,
he becam e an En glish adviser
and later deputy chief education
officer in Cornwall and Demo.
Ironically he is now questioning
whether local authorities have a
fofureapamphleton the subject
from the right-wing think-tank.
Pohteia, is expected shortly.

His first job on the national
scene was as deputy chief ex-
ecutive of the National Curricu-
lum CounriL His rise to the top
was swift A year latex he re-
placed the sacked chief execu-
tive and was soon appointed by
Kenneth Clarke, then secretary
of state for education, to be one
of “three wise men" reviewing
primary education. He was

CloreKendaR

briefly head of the merged test-
ing and curriculum council be-
fore he became chief inspector
Asked once whether he was
ambitious, he said: “I think I
must be, but not in such a way
as to have structured my career
from day one. I suppose I have
seized the moment"

There lias been more fuss
about Mr Woodhead 's latest
foray into controversy than on
any previous occasion. But he
will keep his job and most
teachers, reluctantly, will ac-
knowledge the justice in that
They want him to be judged not
on his views about relationships
between teachers and pupils,
but as history will judge him, on
his effect on schools and on his
success in raising standards.

WORLD OF
WOODHEAD

“If the teaching
profession is unable or
unwilling to implement
change, then standards
of teaching are not
going to rise. Thus far,
many teachers have
shown themselves
resistant to change.
Good schools
recognise their
weaknesses and act
upon them. Poor
schools and poor
teachers drift from year
to year, repeating the
mistakes of the past."
Daily Mail

5 September 1 994

"There appears to be an
agreement that it is In
nobody's interests for
such (poor] teachers to
remain in the
profession. That
agreement must now
be translated into
management action.”
Daily Mail

6 February 1 996

"It is the burial of a
concept of primary
education that says that
in some mysterious way
the innate potential of
each child has merely to
be unlocked."

DaHy Mail
3 June 1996

"As adults or relative
adults we have a
responsibility to those
who are younger than
us and therefore it
[sexual relations
between pupils and
teachers] isn’t a good
idea at all. But 1 don't
think necessarily that a
teacher should be
automatically drummed
out of the profession. I
think human beings can
get chemselves into
messes and I chink
those messes can
sometimes be
experiential and
educative on both
sides."

The Independent

6 February 1999

“My comments should
not be taken in that
conrexr. Ic is nor my
true stance."

The Observer

7 February 1999

Student denies question was personal

7v

STUDENTS WHO attended
the lecture given by Chris
Woodhead wen* adamant last
night lhat the man who asked
the Chief Inspector of Schools
about sexual relationships be-
tween teachers and pupils had
not had a similar experience
himself. This undermined Mr
Rbodhead’s explanation that he
had answered the question
sympathetically saying that
Sexual relationsliips could be
■‘experimenter and “educa-
tive*' because he was respond-
ing to a question of personal
^signifleanre lor the student
Toby Parkin, a final year ed-
ucation student who asked the
question had test night not re-
turned to his halls of residence

BY JANE HUGHES AND
.ANDREW MULLINS

in Exeter after a weekend with
his family in Truro.

But fellow students said he
had asked the question be-
cause he was interested in
Woodhead’s position on legis-
lation going through Parlia-
ment and knew of his affair with
a former pupiL “Toby had asked
one of our lecturers about the
question and she thought it
was really funny and wanted
him to ask it and see what hap-
pened,” said Laura-Sue Elston,
23. a final year student

Students from the Rowan-
croft Halls of Residence where
Mr Parian lives said they

YTHF INDEPENDENT /

Sex between teachers and pupils /
t»n be ‘educative’ - schools chief •

How The Independent? broke the story on Saturday

thought it was unlikely Mr
Woodhead would have re-
sponded in tile same way had
he not had an affair with one of
his own former pupils. They did
not condone the relationship

but said that it had happened
a long time ago and they were
more concerned about Mr
Woodhead’s position on the
issue today. “That sort of char-
acter trait doesn't go away" said

Miss Elston. “We wouldn’t
dream of having a relationship
with a pupd because it is total-
ly unprofessional

Andy Bright, 21, said: “Toby
wasn't able to catch him outbui
I don’t think his comments
were right because teachers
and students have a special re-
lationship and you cant ex-
ploit that

One student teacher said
he thought Mr Woodhead's
claim that he was reassuring a
trainee teacher he “thought
was in trouble" did not ring
true: “None of us are fully qual-
ified teachers yet We haven't
been in the profession long
enough to get ourselves into
that kind of bother”

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‘My teacher abused his position and me’

*

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MIKE WAS and married. I
was 14 :utd precocious. There

was a chemistn between us
and within months we were
hmkigu relationship. But look-
ing back on my affair with my
teacher. 1 see it was nothing
less than exploitation and a se-
rious abuse of mv trust-
Chris Woodhead's remarks
about sex between teachers
and pupils wore ignorant and
dangerous. When a harmless
pupd teacher crush becomes a
sexual relationship it exceeds
the boundaries of ucceptehili-
ly. It is fraught with conflict for
lht» teacher ami pupil and for
the parent*, who entrusted
their child to the school, it is an
art of gross betrayal-

My school, a mixed Catholic
compndtensice. was in two
buildings. 15 minutes walk
apart. Mike would offer lifts to
pupils. He was a real laid back

by Jane Rvan

Sixties type. He smoked in
class, rarely wore a suit, kept

his hair long and treated piqais
like equals. He managed to
combine an easy-going defi-
ance with a serious commit-
ment to bis profession. He
was liked and respected by his
colleagues and the kids.

There was a lot of eye con-
tact; we kept "accidentally”
brushing into eadi other
Eventually he asked me if
I d like to go fora drink. I knew
it was wrong but l was flat-
tered. The attentions of an

older man appealed tomy van-
ity and the iilidtness was ad-
dictive. Soon afterwards, we
wen t for a drive in thecounhy,
md he kissed me. The rela-
tionship continued for two
vears before I had sex
him. He was worried about

having sex with me before I
was 16,

Once it became a bit more
serious, be left bis wife and
moved into a fiat Td go there
after school and at weekends,
haring concocted some lie.

At school, we took crazy
r isks. He bad a storeroom at
the back of his classroom, con-
taining a few desks. It was
quiet private and an ideal
place for me to “study”. It be-
came the perfect place ferns
to snatch a few moments whDe
he dodged in and out of the
class, teaching

I loved the suited be taught

and wanted to do wefl. Td often
get tty marks becauselstudied
hard I know he was tougher on
methantterestcf&edass,but
Tm sure they susp e c t e d favour
itismwhenltfidwefl.

Then there was the trip to
France for a handful of stu-

dents. Another teacher naug ht
us in bed together; but he had
his own reasons for not teffing.

Eventually my parents (fid
find out Td always pretended
1 was going out with other
boys. But (me night when I was
supposed to be out with
“Dave", Dave called round. I
was forced to tell them some-
thing of the truth. Although my
parents never confronted Mike,
he derided to leave the school
and go and work abroad. I was
heartbroken and I needed to
share my feelings with some-
one. I derided to tell my best
friend. I was shattered to dis-
cover he bad dept with ha- and
that sha too, was full of guilt
and confusion.

His job abroad didn’t work
out, and afterafew months he
came* fwk J challenged him
aboutmy friend. He said it was
nothing, that they hadn’t

had sex. The relationship
limped along for a while and
ended during n^y first term at
university:

Ihad lived a Be for nearly five
years, Td taken so many risks
- and an for nothing. I was
young, and foolishly believed
that when I finished universi-
ty we’d be able to live togeth-
er. It took me a tang time to get
over the affair

I felt he'd abused the power
he held. But perhaps a more

d aprming legary of the affair is

that I had to bury my feelings
to make all that deception and
betrayal bearable. The affair
coloured the rest of my life and
my relationships. I lost my
heart to someone in a position
of authority ver y early fo my Efel
sameonewho betrayed his po-
sition, and then betrayed me.
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the author's, hare been changed

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Lib Dems

A deep rift in the closer rela-
tions between the Government
and the Liberal Democrats has
been opened by an internal
Labour Rarty document warn-
ing supporters to “fight every
Liberal because we know the
Liberal game”.

Tony Blair yesterday gave
his authority to the party rank
and file to go onto the attack
against the Liberal Democrats
at a Labour local government
conference in Manchester say-
ing a vote far Paddy Ashdown’s
party was a “leap in the dark*'.

The tone of the attacks on
the Liberal Democrats will be
seen as evidence that the Lib-
Lab co-operation at Cabinet
level, which was set back by the
resignation of Peter Mandelson
and the decision by Mr Ash-
down to stand down from his
party’s leadership, will be
slowed down.

The internal Labour Party
document, which The Inde-
pendent has obtained, will also
infuriate Liberal Democrats
by emphasising the Govern-
ment will not be rushed into
holding a referendum on pro-
portional representation for
Westminster elections.

The memorandum says the
system proposed by the Jenk-
ins commission cannot be im-
plemented before the next
election because of the need for
a boundary review.

Frustration over the failure
to make progress on PE before
the next election may have
played a part in Mr Ashdown’s
decision to step down.

Called Making Britain Bet-
ter, the briefing note on the
forthcoming local and Euro-
pean elections urges party rank
and file supporters to higu *ht
the hypocrisy of the liberal u%s-
mocrats' campaign.

“Social justice is our rallying
cry. Social justice is a division
between the parties. But don't

By Colin brown

AND ANDREW GRICE

be kidded. We peed to fight ever
Liberal too because we know
the Liberal game. In one place
they talk more Tory than
Tories; in another; more Labour
than Labour

“And that's the difference we
have to makp dear. Labour is
a national party, a party of
prindple. And those princi-
ples, our values, are the same
for Labour in Scotland, Wales,
England or Europe,” says the
memorandum.

Mr Blair remains personal-
ly committed to the moderni-
sation “project” with the
Liberal Democrats, but the at
tacks on the Liberal Democrats
show that opponents of moves
towards a coalition, led by John
Prescott, appear to succeeding
in applying the brakes.

Another Cabinet critic, Mar-
garet Beckett, Leader of the
Commons and Labour’s cam-
paign co-ordinator used the
briefing's language yesterday at
the Manchester conference,
accusing the Liberal Democ-
rats of “feeing all ways at once”.

She told supporters: “We
want you to understand loud
and clear there are areas
where the Liberals are active-
ly fighting us - and where they
are, we fight back."

The Prime Minister said he
would to continue to work with
the liberal Democrats on
areas where they were agreed,
such as the need to modernise
the constitution.

But Mr Blair told party sup-
porters to go onto the ofiensive
where the Liberal Democrats
were wrong: “They’re wrong
when they say a penny on in-
come tax is the answer to
every problem, especially
when we’ve already spent sev-
eral times what a penny would
have raised”.

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EU states join forces to halt
Britain’s £2bn budget rebate

ALL u of the other EU member-
states are fighting to end or
curb Britain's budget rebate, it
emerged on the eve of today’s
meeting of finance ministers,
which will debate reforms to the
way Brussels is fended

The opposition to the re-
bate, worth £2bn a year, was
made dear at a recent meeting
of permanent representatives
to the EU when the British am-
bassador Sir Stephen Wall, was
outnumbered. A EU diplomat
said: u 0n this issue it is 14 to 1”.

But Britain’s isolation has
failed to bring any hint of con-
cession from London, raising

By Stephen Castle
in Brussels

the prospect of deadlock over
ambitious plans to reform Eu-
ropean finances.

At today's meeting of finance
ministers in Brussels the re-
bate is likely to be raised as part
of a more general discussions.
At earlier meetings British
ministers dismissed reports of
pressure, arguing that other
member-states do not really ex-
pect the UK to relent

The Government concedes
the rebate wifi be hotly debat-
ed, although Gordon Brown, the

Chanceflon is showing no sign
(tfawfilingness to renegotiate,
aware that no change could be
agreed without British agree-
ment The Government is re-
jecting one compromise idea,
which would prevent the rebate
applying to areas of spending
connected with proposed EU
enlargement

Ministers argue that even
after the EU enlarges to the
East Britain wifi end up as a
bigger net contributor than
several richer countries. The
Government also says reform
of the Common Agricultural
Policy, which will ultimately

benefit the UK, will increase
costs in foe short term.

A source argued: "There is
no shift in the UK position ...
It is non-negotiable. because it
is justified and wifi remain jus-
tified. If others want to discuss
it- and dearly they are going
to - we wifi defend it”

The German presidency of
the EU has made the budget
the centrepiece of its agenda for
coming months and hopes next
month to conclude a deal that
wifi cut its contributions. The
new government is determined
to end the era in which it
bankrolled the Brussels budget

with a net contribution of £8bn
a year The Netherlands. Swe-
den and Austria are also press-
ing for cuts in their bills.

Commission officials say the
outline of a settlement made up
of several elements is becom-
ing dear. A central feature is
likely to be plans to freeze EU
spending in real terms for the
years 2000-2006.

The rebate, won by Mar
garet Thatcher in 1984, refunds
66 per cent of the difference be
tween what the UKpays in VAT
receipts and what it gets back
from the CAP and structural
funds.

Cars to
arrest
their
drivers

BY PHILIP THORNTON
Transport Correspondent

FORGET ROBOCOP. The se-
rial motoring offender of the fu-
ture will be arrested by their
own can according to a vision
of how scientific innovation
could change the way we drive.

Microprocessors installed
in cars will be able to prevent
accidents by advising drivers
about road conditions and
warning of approaching dan-
gers. More alarmingly, tbey
would act as a policeman by
keeping a record of the driver's
actions and even fining or in se-
rious cases, imprisoning them
in their car.

A leading transport expert
Professor Chris Wright of Mid-
dlesex University Business
School, will today warn that in-
ventors must take huge leaps
forward in technology to keep
up with the growing number of
vehicles on Britain’s roads.

“Looking ahead in the longer
term, one can foresee some
quite startling changes. In prin-
ciple, microprocessor devices
with built-in intelligence might
be used to mediate the role of
the driver in some quite radi-
cal ways,” he said.

The device would record all
the driver's actions onto a
“black box” in the car It would
also advise the d r iv e r w hat to do
as emits unfolded on the road.

Professor Wright, who out-
lines Ms views in a public lec-
ture at Gresham College in
the City of London today said
this development was many
years away as the device would
have to be able to process the
image, interpret the road situ-
ation, make a judgement and in-
form the driver at a speed to
keep up with the movement of
the traffic.

But he added: “In some
cases merely telling the driver
what to do will not be enough,
and explicit disincentives will
be desirable.

“Fines could be deducted in-
stantaneously from a running
display of the driver's bank
balance and, in severe cases of
speeding, the car could be im-
mobilised. with the driver
clamped mechanically into the
driving seat and all lights flash-
ing to attract police attention."

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Parties’ air bickering takes off

WILLIAM HAGUE’S colleagues
hit bade last night at Labour
claims of hypocrisy after it
emerged that the Conservative
leader was flying to North
America on a private jet loaned
tjy a businessman.

Irvine Lakflaw, a Scottish in-
dustrialist, has lent Mr Hague
an 11 -sea ter Falcon jet for the
trip - a donation estimated to
be worth £70,000.

Labour ministers used the
gift to attack the Ibries, who
have spent weeks hounding

by Colin Brown
C hief Political Correspondent

them over their use of private
jets and Concorde.

David Willetts, the shadow
education secretary, insisted
that the loan of a jet was above
board and would be declared in
the Commons Register of
Members’ Interests.

“What be IMr Hague] has
done is arrange a very packed
torn;" he told BBfo's On the
Record. “He’s not turning to the

taxpayers in any way to fi-
nance it If you can find some
source of private finance ... pro-
vided it’s properly declared, I
don’t think there’s a problem.”
Mr Hague is going to Cana-
da and the United States to ex-
amine tactics he might use to
attack Tbqy Blair's “third way”.
He will visit Toronto as part of
a five-day tour to hear how Ca-
nadian Conservatives made a
comeback after an election dis-
aster. One Canadian Tory
leader said tbqy had started the

fightback by consulting local
people and bypassing their own
Conservative “eUte*\

At home, Mr Hague is sur-
rounded by the “elite” from
the defeated Tbiy government
A framer minister Philip Op-
penhenn. who runs a Cuban bar
near London's Waterloo station,
said that, despite Mr Hague's
speech championing a “British
way", the Tories were still “ar-
rogant and out of touch".

Godfrey Hodgson,
Review page 4

IN BRIEF

Unions back Morgan for assembly

RHODRI MORGAN, Who is running for the leadership of
the Welsh Assembly claimed that he had the support of 72
per cent of members polled in the 'fransport and General
Worker’s Union, compared with 28 per cent for Alun
Michael, the Wdsh Secretary. Mr Morgan also got the
backing of Unison union members by almost three to one.

Parents plan to have cloned child

A BRITISH couple are considering cloning as a way round
their infertility problem. Computer consultant Peter
Blackburn, 31, who with his wife Udiko, 29, is appearing
on BBCl’s Panorama programme tonight said- “A cloned
child would be part of a family and it would be loved.”

Brave schoolgirl wins award

AN EIGHTYEAR-OLD schoolgirl who bravely overcame the
trauma of being bitten on the face and scarred for life in a
dog attack was among 150 yemngstei^ given Child of Achieve-
ment Awards m London yesterfay. Jessica Brooks, from Aby
Lincolnshire, was said to be an inspiration to others.

Bloncfie top of pops after 17 years

THE POP group Blondie yesterday took the number one
slot in the charts after an absence of nearly 17 years.

Their single Maria became their sixth number one, more
than a decade after their original dominance of the charts.

Five share lottery £8m

FIVE TICKET-HOLDERS shared last night’s £8.lm
National Lottery jackpot The winning numbers were 17,
40, 38, 2, 49 and 23. The bonus number was 10.

New Scots paper
in crowded market

SCOTLAND’S CROWDED news-
paper market became busier
yesterday with the launch of a
broadsheet The Sunday Her-
ald. Though there seems to be
room for another title, there is
some doubt whether the seven-
section Sunday Herald is the
paper to do it

Edited by Andrew Jaspan, a
former Observer editor; it is
backed by the Glasgow-based
Scottish Media Group, which
owns the STV and Grampian
television companies and pub-
lishes the Herald daily.

Scots already have 12 Sun-
day titles, six broadsheet
Around three-quarters of Scots
read Sundays compared with
less than two-thirds in England.

Tran Brown, a commentator
with the Glasgow-based tabloid
Daily Record, said: “My first re-
action ... was not so much Big
Bang as a solid thump. It looks
better than it really is. It’s a tri-
umph of design over content

by Rhys Williams

It’s pretty to look at but the con-
tent left me cold. The paper is
going to have to fight hard i fit
is to create a gap for itself ...
Even the shade of blue on the
front page looks like Scotland
on Sunday"

Although ail the London-
produced Sundays will be
ranged against it The Sunday
Herald's principal rival is Scot-
land on Sunday, published in
Edinburgh and which sells
125,000 copies.

Rob Brown, deputy editor of
The Sunday Herald, insisted
that the new paper was for the
whole of Scotland.

“Glasgow is the media cap-
ital of Scotland and it’s where
people would expect a nation-
al paper to be produced. This
is Scotland's only quality Sun-
day newspaper now that Scot-
land on Sunday has dumbed
down the way it has. "

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are carrying a virus which
could cause hepatitis and liver
cancer in their patients.

The surgeons are carriers of
a low-risk form of hepatitis B
and had been thought to be
incapable of trans mitting the
infection. However; The Inde-
pendent has teamt that she
patients have been infected by
“low-risk” surgeons sfncp 1993.
Two of the patients died.

Pressure is growing on the
Government to ban all sur-
geons infected with hepatitis B
as a result of the cases. Under
current health department
guidelines issued in 1993, sur-
geons have to be tested for he-
patitis B and those found to be
high risk are banned from op-
erating. However; those at low
risk, based on the presence of
antibodies to the virus in their
blood, are permitted to contin-
ue operating.

In 1997, a woman of 83 died
after becoming infected with
hepatitis B during a hip re-
placement operation at a hos-
pital in north Wales. Last June,
her surgeon, Sanjay Ingley, 32,
was found guilty of serious pro-
fessional misconduct by the
General Medical Council and
banned from operating for
three years. Counsel for the
GMC said the case raised ur-
gent questions about the guide-
lines whidi "should be revised”.

) In 1996. a 77-year-oW woman
died a few months after con-
tracting the infection during
surgery at Hillingdon hospital,
west London. Her surgeon, an
orthopaedic registrar, was also
found to have been low risk.

Fbars are growing among
NHS trusts in the wake of the
six cases that the guidelines are
not tough enough and that they
may be in breach of their duty'
of rare for patients if they allow
hepatitis B surgeons to operate.
Dr Roger Cooke, a specialist in

By Jeremy Laueance
Health Editor

occupational medicine who ad-
vises several trusts in the Mid-
lands, said: "I am aware of
trusts turning applicants down
for surgery posts Aether they
are high or low risk."

In November; Dr Jeremy
Metiers, deputy chief medical
officer and chairman of the
Government’s advisory com-
mittee on hepatitis B, ordered
a survey of all NHS trusts to
establish the number of health-
care workers performing inva-
sive procedures with low-risk
hepatitis B.

Professor JanguBanatvala,
immedia te past chai rman nfffrp
advisory committee and head
of clinical virology at St
Thomas’ Hospital, London,
said: “The guidelines do need
revising. We have to take this
seriously but we can onfy do so
if there is some action we can
take. The risks are low and ban-
ning all surgeons with hepati-
tis could result in more deaths
if it led to an increase in wait-
ing lists. Ifl were having an op-
eration today I would worry
much less about hepatitis B
than about the other risks of
surgery”

Research was going on in

London and Bi rmingham to

derise a more sensitive test fix*
hepatitis B. One solution would
be to introduce universal vac-
cination against B to

protect the population against
the virus. Almost 100 countries
now practice routine vaccina-
tion, including all of Western
Europe except the UK the
Netherlands and Scandinavia.

“T Bimlrunn mal VaCQIl&tiO D is

justified. It should be brought
in,” Professor Banatvala said.

A spokeswoman for the
health department saidfc “tfe are
aware of the issue. The current
guidelines are under review.”

Garth Brooks, whose music will today be included in an Internet trial that could revolutionise the music business

Downloadable CDs to rival stores

THE WORLD’S five biggest
record companies will today
launch a scheme to offer music
downloadable direct from the
Internet m a move winch could
signal the wiH of the traditional
record shop.

The trial in San Diego, will
enable 2,000 specially-selected
Internet surfers to place orders
for albums and download then
direct to their computers via a
cable modem in six minutes.

The result will be CD quality
sound via a secure Internet fink.
But the price - around $12L99
(£759) -will be no cheaper than
that charged in ordinary l/S
record shops.

The move is being pioneered
by EMI Sony. Time-Warnei;
Bertelsmann and Seagram,
owner of Universal and Poly-
Gram, who together control 80

by Nigel cope
Associate City Editor

per cent of the world’s music
business. Their aim is to
counter the growing problem of
music piracy on the Internet
from where people can down-
load songs for free using a for-
mat called MP3.

The problems has been com-
pounded by the launch of an
MP3 player, railed Diamond
mo, which can play up to an
hour of digital recordings »sing
no (fisc or tape.

Under the codename “Pro-
ject Madison”, the music com-
panies have linked up with
IBM to provide the 2,000 par-
ticipants with recordable com-
pact disc machines which will
capture the digital recordings
much quicker than MP3

recordings and in a way that is
financially secure.

The scheme will involve only
a limited number of albums but
they will be taken from the
nugor labels’ huge rosters. For
instonre , E MT has the Rolling
Stones, tiie Spice Girls, Garth
Brooks and the Smashing
Pumpkins on its books.

Though the record compa-
nies say they hope to work
with the retailers to provide the
service, it is understood that
some of the Big Five are keen
to bypass the high street alto-
gether. “Selling direct is an
issue that has not yet been
resolved,” said an EMI spoke-
sman. We want to find out how
the technology works and what
the customer reaction is.”

Critics of the scheme say the
muse majors will find it difficult

to replace the retailers. “If they
band together to fight the
retailers they would be hit by an
anti trust suit before they even
started,” said Will Whitebom,
a spokesman for Virgin which
owns the Virgin Megastores.

Mr Whitehom says even the
most optimistic forecasts show
that the Internet will account
for just 9 per cent of US music
sales by ZOOM and the same fig-
ure in Europe by 2009.

Alan Giles, chief executive of
HMV Media said: “You could
view it as an opportunity for
retailers rather than a threat
This will allow retailers to offer

halanpe, rpcn mmpndafinns and

a choice that would not be
available direct from the music
companies." Mr Giles added
that music shops would con-
tinue to have a role for the sim-

ple reason that many people
enjoy shopping.

Traditional retailers are
already being attacked by on-
line music stores such as
CDNow and Music Boulevard,
which can offer lower prices,
and new competition is arriving
all the time. In April Virgin’s
new music label V2 is planning
a scheme that wifi enahfe shop-
pers to listen to songs and view
pop videos before deciding to
download a song digitally.

It will undercut the tradi-
tional retailers on price but
has not yet disclosed by how
much. The scheme is set for
launch in the US in April and in
the UK in June.

Separately y esterday FNAC
France's leading music and
books retailer announced [dans
to sell songs over the Internet

Monarch
stubs out
tobacco
warrant

By Lindsay Barnes

ANTI-SMOKING campaigners
yesterdsy applauded the Queen
for withdrawing the royal war-
rant from Gallahei; the largest
producer of cigarettes for the
UK market The Weybridge-
based company produces Ben-
son & Hedges, Silk Cut and
Hamlet cigars.

The rpyal warrant was the
ultimate product endorsement
and its retraction was long
overdue, said Clive Bates, di-
rector of Action on Smoking and
Health.

“We’re delighted. There is
nothing better than the Queen
lending her coat of arms to your
product I can’t pretend that it’s
going to stop smoking but it is
another blow to tobacco com-
panies.”

The move was also wel-
comed by the Roy Castle Lung
Cancer Foundation. Fiona Cas-
tle said she had written to the
Queen to plead with her to
withdraw support for Britain’s
tobacco companies.

“It was inappropriate in this
enlightened age that she was
seen to be supporting tobacco
companies by allowing them
the royal warrant This is a
great step forward,”

Ray Donnelly the organisa-
tion’s founder and medical di-
rector, said the decision
indicated the Palace had final-
ly fallen in line with majority
opinion in the country.

“When the highest authori-
ty in the land appeared to ap-
prove of cigarettes it left us with
our hands tied ... in the battle
to stop young people smok-
ing,” he said.

Gallaher’s corporate- affairs
manager, Jeff Jeffery, said
granting the royal warrant was
“a matter for the royal house-
hold. Beyond that we do not
want to comment”

Smoking causes the prema-
ture deaths of 120,000 people in
Britain each year. An estimat-
ed 12 million Britons smoke,
amounting to 28 percent of the
population. At the end of the
Second TOxid War mare than 80
per cent of British men
smoked, said Peter McCabe,
chief executive of Quit which
helps people to stop.

Quitline can be contacted on
0800002200.

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night as he was presented with
a special award for his contri-
bution to cinema.

The judges of the Evening
Standard British Film Awards
said they ’'felt bound to ac-
knowledge his contribution and
commitment to an industiy
that has shown a remarkable
upturn in fortunes over the
last year". He has already won
a Golden Globe for his perfor-
mance as a sleazy agent in the
current release Little Voice.

Caine’s “triumphant in-
ternational career has brought
honour and glory to the UK cin-
ema”. added the judging panel
of British film critics. Tribute
was paid to him at the cere-
mony at London's Savoy Hotel
by Julie Walters, his co-star in
Educating Rita.

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By David Lister
Arts News Editor

ebration of several careers that
began in the Sixties, there was
another special achievement
award for the director Ken
Loach, while the best actress
award went to Julie Christie for
her performance as a former
starlet in Afterglow, and the
best actor to Derek Jacobi

for his portrayal of artist Fran-
cis Bacon in Love is the DerriL

The judges said that Ken
Loach's latest Elm My Name Is
Joe ranked among his finest
work and the award recog-
nised “his ceaseless struggle to
make films that speak of the
human predicament”.

The director John Boorman
collected the best film award for
The General which he also
wrote. He received the award
from the Hollywood actor John

Caine in ‘little Voice’

Vbigt who appeared in his ear-
lier work Deliverance as wefi
as The General. The judges
said that The General, “the
tnio of Irish criminal genius
Martin Cahill was a wholly suc-
cessful distinctive and idio-
syncratic movie that revealed

the hand of a master film-
maker at his peak”.

The award for best screen-
play went to Eileen Atkins for
her adaptation of Virginia
Woolf’s Mrs DaUoway. And the
Peter Sellers Award for Come-
dy was presented by Holly-
\rood actor Richard Dreyfuss to
Bill Nighy for his angst-ridden
ageing rock star in StSl Crazy.

Cinematographer Ashley
Rowe won best technical
achievement award for his
wock on four films (Still Crazy ,
The Governess, TkeWoodlcmd-
ers and Twenty Four /Seven).
The most promising newcom-
er award was won by Guy
Ritchie for Lock, Stock and
Tiro STnokmg Barrels.

The two British triumphs of
tltis yeas Shakespeare in Love
and Hilary and Jackie were
released too late to be eligible
for the 1998 awards.

Met seeks fresh
Lawrence leads

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THE TEAM of detectives inves-
tigating tiie murder of Stephen

Lawrence is following up sev-
eral new leads, foe Metropoli-
tan Police said yesterday,
nearly six .rears after the block
teenager was stabbed by a
racist gang.

Deputy* Assistant Commis-
sioner John Grieve, the head of
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Vas attacked in 1993.

Hr walked around the mur-
der scene and some of the sur-
rounding streets.

Mr Grieve, who took charge
of the murder squad 10 days
am. also hosted a meeting at
Scotland Yard of all the mtelh-
grmw anatysts who have

worked on the ease.

1; was there that “a numba*
uf wavs forward” were identi-
fied. according to a statement
that was issued yesterday.

By Kathy marks

Scotland Yard declined to
comment on reports yester-
day that detectives are consid-
ering bringing new charges
against the five men who are
widely regarded as the prime
suspects: Jamie and Neil
Acourt, Gary Dobson, David
Norris and Luke Knight

That prospect had been con-
sidered an impossibility, espe-
cially in the cases of Neil
Acourt, Knight and Dobson,
who were acquitted of the mur-
der in 1996 after the collapse of
a private prosecution brought
by Stephen’s parents. But
according to the reports, the
police have received legal
advice that they could prose-
cute members of the gang

and assault, if they gather new
evidence. _ _ ,

Uncomfortable truth.
Review, page 4

Army launches
fashion label

THE ARMY has unveiled its lat-
est move in the battle to win
new recruits with the launch of
a new range of branded
clothes, accessories and
leisure wean

The British military’s first
venture into the commercial
market will see Army fleeces,
T-shirts, baseball caps, combat
style trousers and mountain
bikes complete with the logo -
Army Be The Best - mi sale
from April

The items, which also in-
clude wristwatches, walking
boots, a ski-hat and stationery;
will be sold for between £10 to
£40.

Colonel Rory Clayton, the
Army’s head of recruitment
marketing, hopes it will at-
tract more rtf the 17 to 28-
year-olds who form the basis
of the Army’s new recruits.

He said: “This is about re-
cruiting and image-building,
and it win also hopefully, un-

By Helen William

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our operation. After a long
period when we have been
forced by terrorism to with-
draw from society, we want to
make ourselves part of society
again.”

The range lias been devel-
oped in connection with
Saatehi and Saatchi with the
aim of making the Army more
visible.

In addition to the official slo-
gan pens are available with a
range of phrases including
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tridges”. “Loaded with lead”
and “Left, write. left, write”.

A Ministry of Defence
spokesman added: “If we can
use hunger techniques to help
us In our recruitment then
that is what we will do. It is to
heighten positive efforts of the
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Most race attack victims ‘are white’

THE MAJORITY of victims of
racial attacks are white, ac-
cording to a report to be re-
leased next week by race
relations watchdogs.

The disclosure, days before
the release of the findings of the
Stephen Lawrence inquiry, will
provoke intense debate over
Britain’s future direction as a
multicultural society.

The Commission for Racial
Equality which has produced
the report called for detailed
government research into the
nature of racist attacks on
white people.

CRE chairman Sir Herman
Ousel ey said; “It would be ir-
responsible for us to not try to
take this on head-on and un-
derstand it better.”

By ian Burrell
H ome Affairs Correspondent

He said; "It's absolutely dear
in our view that you can be black
and racist Clearly the evidence
we have shows that this is not
just a white problem.”

The CRE report, called
Racial Attacks and Harass-
ment, records that 238,000
white people told researchers
they had been victims of a
racial offence in a 12-month pe-
riod, compared to 101,000
Asians and 42,000 blacks.

Race experts believe that
many of the white victims could
be Jewish, Irish or from other
European minorities.

Other incidents result from
tensions between the English.

Welsh and Scottish, which are
increasingly seen as rariaL
It also believed that some
white victims of crimes such as
street-robberies, where a dis-
proportionate number of of-
fenders are black, are reporting
the inddents as race attacks.

Sir Herman said that the
“white” category was “veiy
broad" and that it did not nec-
essarily follow that a white vic-
tim had been ratidQy abused or
attacked by someone of a dif-
ferent skin colour

He said; “It is easy to put in-
terpretations which are not
accurate onto figures, and at
the moment the figures are a
bit too bald."

Tbe CRE report, which
draws on a wide range of gov-

ernment and academic re-
search studies, comes as local
authorities across England and
Wales are conducting audits of
race attacks.

Bradford Metropolitan Dis-
trict Council reported last
month that police records of
racial attacks showed that 52
per cent of victims were white,
9 per cent black and 35 per cent
Asian. Suspects were described
as 50 percent Asian, 37 per cent
white, 2 per cent black and 11
per cent unknown.

The CRE report paints out
that, because of their smaller
numbers, members of minori-
ty ethnic groups are still far
more likely to be victims of
racial attacks than whites.

Some 8 per cent of Pakista-

nis reported being victims in a
yean compared to 5 per cent of
Indians, 4 per cent of Caxib-
beans and l per cent of whites.

The CRE report coincides

with fi nrimgg p nhEnhpri tod a y by

the Institute for Public Policy
Research showing that, as
Britain has become more mul-
tiracial, parts of the white pop-
ulation have grown defensive
a n d insecure.

Yasmin Alibhai-Browu, au-
thor of the IPPR study, states:
“Increasingly, white people of
all classes are feeling deep
anxieties about the loss of white
identity as we go into the next
century and into further inte-
gration with Europe."

IPPR research in the inner
London district of Somers Tbwn,

found the five most common
words used by whites to de-
scribe neighbouring Asians
were "scroungers”, rifely”, "an-
imals", “pigs", and “not British"

In response to such atti-
tudes, eight young Asian men
fold the IPPR that they “would
retaliate with physical force if
they were provoked” and that
they “hatedthese whites”. Five
said they had attacked white
boys and would do so again.

Even in the more affluent
London borough of Richmond
and Hounslow, researchers
found that “some black and
Asian families had developed a
hatred for white people".

Partly as a result of this,
some whites now say they have
been victims of racial offences.

But other white victims will
be Irish, Jewish, gypsies and
travellers. English settlers in
Scotland, and Scottish settlers
in England. Dane Kim Stevns-
borg came to live in England be-
cause he was so impressed by
the hospitality he received as a
visiting football supporter dur-
ing the Euro 96 tournamenL
But in October he took his
Sheffield employer to court for
racial discrimination after his

supervisor repeatedly referred
to him as a “Danish bastard".

A report next week by the
Refugee Council will show that
the latest people to be targeted
by racists in Britain are newly-
arrived Kosovan refugees.

Rachel Rees, of the Refugee
Council, said many Kosovans in

Dover are too frightened to
speak publicly in their native -
language to case tiwy we at-,
tacked by racists. One elderly
couple were forced to flee their
home after a brick was thrown
through their window.

Meanwhile the IPPR stt&ly
reveals evidence of discord be-
tween some members of dif-
ferent Asian communities.

The research indicates that
Britain is following America's
path towards a more segment-
ed society. Ms Alibhai-Brown
said rears of government inac-
tion had inhibited integration axl
called for a national strategy of
mulliculturalism to bring the
British public closer together .

Leading article
Review, page 3

The Jewish footballer

The Eastender

in what she describes as a
racially motivated attack.
Rose Wbolf, 75, was
mugged nine months ago
near her home in Stepney
Green, east London.

“As I was walking along
there were two Asian boys
about 14 or 1 5 a bit ahead
of me. Suddenly they
stopped as if they were
picking something up and
then spun around, grabbed
my bag and ran off.

I lost some money, a purse,
an umbrella and a rail tick-
et. If I had been an Asian
woman of my age I don't
think they would have
done It.

There is quite a lot of
racial tension around here.

I'm not a racist and I know
white boys also do bad
things but most of the
things [attacks] you read
about in the Past London

Advertiser every week
seem to be by black people
and Asians. I heard the
same thing happened to air
older lady who broke her
collar bone, in see a few
boys around I get a bit ner-
vous. > wear a coat with
pockets now to carry
things in."

Mrs Woolf added; “It really
shook me up. 1 was lucky I
wasn’t hurt but it still took
me a long time co get over
it. Even the ocher day
there was an Asian boy in
front of me who kept turn-
ing around and looking at
me. I wondered if he was
waiting for me so he could
take my bag."

LINUS GREGOR1ADIS

The Irishman

AFTER Rving in England for
37 years, Tony Boland was
forced to return to his native
Limerick by anti-Irish feelings
that followed the 1 996
Manchester bomb.

First his home was daubed
with slogans such as "Irish
scum” and "murdering
bastards”, and then his car
was vandalised.

The 56-year-old widower,
who worked as a housing
caretaker in the inner-city
Manchester district of
Hulme, returned to Ireland
last year to protect his son
Kieron, aged eight.

He said: “The resentment
really started after the bomb.
The attitude towards Irish

people changed even when
you just went shopping. I
couldn’t stand it any more. I.
was frightened For my son,"

Discrimination against
Britain’s million-strong Irish
community has long been
hidden by the fact that it is
not a colour issue.

Researchers have found
that most Irish people
surveyed could identify
instances of behaviour which
they Found insulting, hurtful
or intimidating.

Old stereotypes remain.
Depictions of an Irish family
in the television soap opera
Brookside - of having IRA
links and of grazing horses in
their garden - prompted
Martin Brady, deputy leader
of the Fianna Fail party in
Ireland, co complain of "pure
racism".

The English Exiles

FOOTBALL'S ATTEMPTS to rid
itself oF racism received a
setback last year when
West Ham United's Israeli-
born midfielder Eyal
Berkovic revealed he had
been subjected to anti-se-
micic abuse from other
players.

Berkovic claimed to have
been barracked during an
FA Cup tie against fellow
Premiership club Blackburn

Rovers. He said; “It's the
first time since I came to
England that I've had this
sort of thing from oppos-
ing players and 1 find it dif-
ficult to handle, it upset
me badly."

Shortly afterwards, the
player was subjected to
further ami-semitic com-
ments from opposing sup-
porters at a game at
Bolton Wanderers.

Although anti-semitism has
been in steady decline in
Britain for many years and
physical attacks are now
rare, there has been a no-
table rise in incidents of
abusive behaviour.

Figures supplied by the
Board of Deputies of
British Jews show that
there were 1 33 such inci-
dents last year compared
to 86 in 1997,

Mike Whine, a spokesman
for the Board, said; “It
tends to be a drip, drip of
constant harassment of
people. Although each inci-
dent may be fairly small it
builds up to something
fairly substantial."
Occasionally more serious
inddents of anti-semitism
occur. Rabbi Menachem
Junik of Richmond Syna-
gogue was attacked by a

gang of up to 1 5 youths as
he walked home in July
1 996.The youths pelted
him with beer cans, pulled
his hair, swore at him and
told him: “Leave this coun-
try. We don't need you
here." There were 1 7
recorded anti-semitic as-
saults last year and 31 inci-
dents of radst damage to
Jewish property.

IAN BURRELL

The Braveheart phenome-
non, a Hollywood-Inspired
rise in Scottish nationalism,
has been linked to a rise in
anti-English prejudice.
English couple Frank (right)
and Sandra Walters took
legal action Following events
which they claim drove
them out of Scotland.

They said that rubbish was
dumped outside the door of
tha'r Galloway home and
placards were put up say-
ing: "English Out".

The couple took action
against a local pub after
they received a legal letter
saying they were barred.

Last November, the Com-
mission for Racial Equality

asked the Scottish Office to
set up a register of radst in-
cidents after a series of at-
tacks on English children in

playgrounds north of the
border.

Reports linked a rise in at-
tacks on English people to
the success of Braveheart .
The CRE discovered that
most calls to its new Scot-
tish helpline were from Eng-
lish people.

But some Scots feel chat
discrimination also flows in
the opposite direction.
Computer expert Murray In-
gram. a Scot living in Exeter,
unsuccessfully claimed racial
discrimination by his em-
ployer BT after being told
his accent sounded “harsh
and aggressive" on the tele-
phone.

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THERE have long been city
parks and, in recent years, city
farms have sprung up. Now a
new phenomenon is n paring
completion: a city wetland.

A 105-aere watery wilderness
is being created in west London
that Includes a marsh, a large
reed bed, a series of lakes and
an extensive network of ponds.

This is The Wetland Centre,
Barnes, the £i6m dream - now
being realised - of Sir Peter
Scott, the late naturalist,
painter and founder of the
World Wildlife Blind (now called
the World Wide Rind for
Nature).

Birds that normally steer
well dear of cities. such as
reed warblers and little ringed
plovers, have already bred
plentifully at the new centre;
wild ducks and geese flock
there by the hundred; a third of
Britain's dragonfly spedes can
be seen.

Sir Peter, whose wildfowl
sanctuary at Slirabridge on the
Severn became world-
renowned, believed that a sim-
ilar reserve could be set up in
London, where it could serve as
a powerful tool for environ-
mental education.

Shortly before his death in
1989. he found the ideal ate: a
group of four Victorian reser-
voirs in west London owned by
Thames Water but made re-
dundant by a new large-scale
water carrier, the Thames ring
main.

He painted his impression of
what they might become in his
final painting (uncompleted on
his death and finished by the
artist Keith Shaddeton).

A decade later, the trans-
formation into what is believed
lo be the world's first real wet-
land in a capital dty is nearly
complete - thanks to an un-
usual three-way partnership
between the water company, a
housing developer and an
organisation Sir Peter founded,
the Wildfowl and Wetlands
Trust tWWTL

Thames Water sold almost a
fifth of the 125-acre site for
housing to Berkeley Homes,
which provided the £lim cost
of breaking up the four huge
concrete and day boxes that
were the reservoirs and tum-

By Michael McCarthy
E nvironment Correspondent

ing them into a series Of wet-
land habitats with controllable
water levels, to die WWTs de-
sign. The fitting-out afbufltfings
will cost another £5m, of which
£2m has already been raised

The Wetland Centre will
open in a year’s time, but it is
already dear that it win be a na-
ture reserve to equal some of
the most exiting in Britain,
such as Slimbridge itself or
the Royal Society for the Pro-
tection of Birds reserve at
Minsmere in Suffolk.

Hie plate-glass windows of
the visitor centre, 25 feet high
and 100 feet long, look directly
on to a large shallow lake which
last week was crowded with
flocks of teal, Britain’s smallest
duck. On the leeward side of a
small island a dozen herons
bundled in shelter from the
wind Many wintering ducks,
such as pochard and shoveller;
are currently occupying foe
lakes: in January, 50 spedes of
birds were recorded

Out on the reserve, two main
hides overtook a mosaic of habi-
tats designed to bring in as
great a variety of birds and
other wildlife as posable. One
of the hides is three storeys tall
and is believed to be foe only
one in foe world with a lift,
which is to be used for disabled
access. Closed-circuit televi-
sion will be installed through-
out foe sit e.

The WWT is expecting
350,000 visitors a year to Hie
Wetland Centre, and me of its
prime purposes will be educa-
tion: a series of exhibits will in-
form people about river life of
foe Thames and about wet-
lands around foe world

“Sir Peter thought the future
of wetlands lay in education,"
said Kevin Peberdy 35, the pro-
ject manager: *116 thought a
major part of conservation lay
in foe education of people and
he wanted to attract people to
a nature reserve who wouldn’t
nannaltygDi So rather than cre-
ating reserves in isolated
places where the birds were, he
fooughtwe should go where the
people were, and bring foe
birds to them.’’’

Macho bosses
* ‘not leaders’

THE WKiTIN G is on the wall for
foe “macho manager". Accord-

by Roger Trapp

arc the most highly regarded
The study, produced by the
Industrial Society to mark foe
start of its Leadership Week,
shows that leaders are most ad-
mired for their “people skills”,
ethical beliefs and ability to
deal with breaches of stan-
dards of behaviour.

The study. Liberating Lead-
t-nshtp IW9. coincides with foe
hunt for a replacement for
Glenn Hoddle as England foot-
ball coach, with some experts
saving that instead of appoint-
ing one top name, England
J} should copy the French nation-
v a! side which is masterminded

by a small group of people.

* U appears to support foe
view that the qualities needed
f,»r successful management
may not necessarily all be
found in one person and that a
manager who is prepared to
delegate and take on the sug-
gestions of colleagues is likely
to be most successfuL

The studvalso comesas foe
number irf vacancies for chief
executive at big companies sug-

gests there are serious prob-
lems in Britain’s boardrooms.

Employees put less empha-
sis than would be expected on
“strong" leadership. Instead,
foe top five skills identified by
the report are: dealing effec-
tively \yith breaches to stan-
dards of behaviour; not taking
personal credit for other peo-
ple’s work; listening to staff;
working on their own learning
and being honest and truthful.

Iboy Morgan, foe Industrial
Society’s chief executive, said the
research showed that it was “a
combination of integrity and
honesty plus the ability to set
standards and take dedrive ac-
tion thatmarte out the truly suc-
cessful leader". He added:
“Leaders ... cannot escape the
need to adapt to this new “firm
but fair" style ofleadership. Not
if they want toremain at the tep."

This view is lent support by
research from accountants
Arthur Andersen, also pub-
lished today which indicates
that differences in leadership
style are behind foe contrasts
in foe performance of growing
British companies.

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ONE IN fifteen nwn between the
ages of 45 and 49 who stop work
in the UK will never be em-
ployed again, according to new
research. And their chances
of getting back to work are
diminishing with every suc-
cessive generation of middle-
aged men.

The dramatic findings about
the disappearance of work for
middle-aged and older males
imply that since 1979 about
800,000 men over the age of 50
have vanished from the work-

By diane Coyle
Economics Editor

force. And two-fifths of men be-
tween 55 and 65 no longer work.

They are either low earners
who lose their jobs, or high
earners given early retirement
as a form of redundancy.

The report, published today
by the Centre for Analysis of
Social Exclusion at the Loudon
School of Economics, finds
that the trend has been
getting worse.

Each successive generation
of men is more disadvantaged,
and economic recovery has not

halted the trend.

It concludes: “Not only are
older men today less likely
to be employed than their
fathers, but there is also a real
possibility that employment
levels among their sons will be
even lower when they reach
middle age."

Professor John Hills, direc-
tor of tile centre, said: “Work-
ing lives of 30 years are no

longer uncommon." The prob-
lem with this was that
company pensions devised
when a 40-year career was
the norm were unlikely to be
adequate for an extra decade
of retirement.

Professor Hills added: “It
makes it harder to have a
pension system that is both
adequate and affordable - and
it makes it more difficult for
individuals to achieve suffi-
cient pension provision for
themselves.”

The decision to quit the
workforce early is not usually
voluntary, the report con-
dudes.

It says: “The cost to em-
ployers of salaiy-related pen-
sions increases, often
substantially as people near
retirement age, providing in-
centives to employers to en-
courage their employees to
retire early,”

A man in bis late forties or
early fifties on above average
pay is 50 per cent more tikety

to leave the workforce if he
has an occupational pension.
Employers want to escape
the cost of making their re-
maining pension contributions,
while employees might not
realise how inadequate their
existing pension is likely to
prove, the report says.

The people least likely to lose
their jobs are those with above
average wages but no occupa-
tional pension scheme.

Older men who have been
made redundant are unlikely to

return to work unless they
can find a new job straight
away. The longer they spend
away from employment the
less likely it is wil1 return

to wort

The report also shows
that a fall in male employment
is accompanied by an de-
crease in economic activity
among the age group as older
men dedde to retire rather
than spend time looking for
new jobs or claiming unem-
ployment benefit.

The other category of older
men likely to have dropped out
consists of those with very few
wages, often in declining fa. :
dustrics.

In addition- the pattern of
demand for employees in the
economy has shifted away
from older men in favour of
younger women, the report
say*.

Females in their thirties
are much mure likely to be in
work than they used to be, it
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Marconi archive to
get special museum

A UNIQUE collection of archive
materials and equipment from
the life and work of Guglielmo .
Marconi is to go on display for
the first time.

The material, including mes-
sages transmitted during the
.sinking of the Titanic and the
inventor’s diary from 1901,
when he recorded the first sig-
nal across the Atlantic, has obty
been seen by academics re-
questing special permission
from GEC, the parent compa-
ny of Marconi.

Two years ago, GEC sparked
an outcry when it said it
planned to sell the collection but
after Princess Elettra Mar-
coni-GiovaneUi, the inventor's
daughter intervened, it can-
celled the sale. A charitable
trust set up by the company will
search for premises to display
the archive in Chelmsford.
Essex, home of Martonfs Wire-
less Telegraph Company, and it
should be open next yean

The material dates ba,*' to
1896, when Marconi, unabli
find support in his native Itaty
arrived in Britain determined
to make radio work. In 1901, he
made a transmission from

by Kate Watson-Smyth

Cornwall to Newfoundland and
long-distance communication
was bom. Two years later wire-
less recaved official recognition
as a world force when the Mar-
coni system was adopted by the
Royal Navy.

Among the highlights of the
collection are approximately
2,000 wireless messages from
the Titanic and other ships in-
volved in the rescue, including
the Carpathia.

Marconi had been invited to
sail on the Titanic's maiden
voyage with his wife, Beatrice,
and their two young children
hut h usiness rnmmitm pnfc pm-

vented it Beatrice had still in-
tended travelling but their baby
fell 01 on the morning they
were due to sail and none of the
family went on board.

Gordon Bussey, the GEC
archivist said that each time a
telegram was sent it was writ-
ten before transmission by the
operator who gave a copy to the
captain. “We have all those
messages, including the one re-
ceived by the Virginia, which
was the last ship in the world

to receive a message from the
Titanic. It is timed at 12J?7
New Ybrfc time and would have
been 2 -27am on the Titanic.
“The operator on the Virginia
was writing down the mes-
sage, which stopped halfway
through the distress signal and
he wrote: ‘Signal getting very
blurred then suddenly stopped
as if the power had been turned
OS’. That was the very moment
that the Titanic went down.”

By the end of the First Vftjrld
War it was possible to repro-
duce speech and music by wire-
less and radio became a form
of entertainment In 1919. jour-
nalists travelling on a bus from
Chelmsford to Colchester were
entertained with “wirelessly
transmitted music”.

From these beginnings the
BBC was born in 1922 and tele-
vision followed in 1936, the year
before Marconi’s death. In a fit-
ting tribute, the announcement
of his death was made on the
wireless.

The following day, radio
transmissions around the
world were silenced for two
minutes as a reminder of what
it had been like before Marooni.

Gortlon Bussey, GEC’s archivist, with equipment identical to that on which the Titanic’s final distress call was sent

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bonus of up to £50 a week for
giving up work to look after an
elderly relative or a handi-
capped m emb er of the family
under plans to be unveiled
today by ministers.

Tony Blair was to have pre-
sented the plans for rewarding
voluntary helpers in the home,
to underfine the Government’s
ocHnmitmentto do more for car-
ers, but the Prime Minister
will now be attending this
afternoon’s funeral of King
Hussein. Before leaving for
Jordan, Mr Blair paid tribute to
the work of carers, “the unsung
heroes" of British fife.

“One in eight people -nearly
six million people in the UK -
devote large parts of their lives
to helping others.

“There are many extraordi-
nary stories but there - stories
about ordinary people doing

By Colin Brown
Chief Political Correspondent

extraordinary things. Caring
is of course personal but the
Government does have a
record of supporting carers
and admowiedgfag tbeir caring
role. This package will start to
do that,” said Mr Blair

The package of help for car-
ers will indude a proposal to re-
ward people who have to give
up work to look after a relative
an extra pension of up to 050 a
week when they receive their
normal state pension.

The top-up would be a bonus
“thank you” from the state for
taking on the extra unpaid
work during their earlier fife.

The idea wffl be open to con-
sultation, but it is likely to be
warmly welcomed by carers
groups. It is estimated that
there are more than 35 million

carers in Britain looking after
someone with a disability while
millions of others look after an
elderly relative; over 850.000 of
them provide care for more
than 50 hours a week
Nearly 60 per cent of all car-
ers do not get visits from the
providers of support services.
Maqy carers do their work day
in, day out without seeking
help or rewards.

lb try to get a more accurate
picture of how many carers are
devoting time to their voluntary
hdp for other people, a question
will be put on the next census,
in 2001, to include information
about carers. A new grant could
be introduced to help carers
take a break from their daily
routine of caringat home. There
may also be council-tax reduc-
tions for disabled people and
their carers when their houses
are adapted for disability.

The Government is also
looking at ways of extending the
New Deal to help carers return
to work after caring for an
elderly relative or handicapped
person. There will be a White-
hall-wide strategy to adopt
more “carer-friendly” policies
among employers! and the
Whitehall ministries wifi be
expected to show a lead.

Local authorities, health and
other services will be told by the
Government to take carers into
account A commitment to do
more was given by Mr Blair
when he invited a group of car-
ers to Downing Street soon
after he took office.

That was followed up in June .
when he appointed Paul Boa-
tong. then a Social Security
minister, to oversee the policy
Mr Boateng was moved to the
Home Office but has kept,
responsibility for the policy.

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PLANS POR a major European
summit with Asian leaders
have been thrown into disarray
because Robin Cook, the Fbr-
eign Secretary, has refused to
sit down with a minister from
Burma.

The meeting in Berlin next
rrw>n th may have tn be can celled
because of the stand on human
rights taken by Britain and
other European states. -

Mr Cook, who has faced crit-
icism that his “ethical" foreign
polity has few teeth, is deter-
mined to take a strong line on
the issue.

The Burmese military junta
has been widely criticised for
appalling human rights abuses,
and there is a European visa
ban on its senior officials and
ministers.

In January, a meeting in

By Fran abrams
Westminster Correspondent

Bangkok between European
Commissioners and leaders of
Asean. the South East Asian
economic community was can-
celled because Burma Was due
to be present

Derek Fhtchett, the Fbreign
Office minister, is expected to
reinforce Britain’s strong line
on the issue in a written par-
liamentary answer today to the
Liberal Democrat MP for
Somerton and Frome, David
Heath.

A Foreign Office spokes-
woman said that while it would
accept the presence of junior
Burmese officials as observers,
ministers would not take part
in the meeting with their coun-
terparts from the country un-

Robin Cook: Determined
to take a strong line

less genuine concessions were
made on human rights.

Because there must be una-
nimity on the presence of

Burma for the meeting to go
ahead. Britain’s stand could
mean its cancellation. Mr Cook
IS supported by other nations in-
cluding Denmark and other
Scandinavian countries, but
FVance is believed to support 3
stronger lino.

The other Asean member
states. Brunei, Indonesia.
Malaysia, tile Philippines. Sin-
fftpore, Thailand, Vietnam and
„ 5 - toiriri that Burma must
attend.

Burma was admitted to
Asean in 1997 amid claims that
its numan rights record would
improve through links with
other countries. Last month,
however, more than 350 ac-
tivists were jailed for between
seven and 52 years for sup-
porting Aung San Sun Kyi's Na-
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THE Government yesterday

urged DavkJTHmble and Gerry
Adams to agree some sort of
compromise in a bid to end the
para mili tary disarmament
deadlock which is threatening
the future of the Northern Ire-
land peace process.

With the republican leader-
ship resisting Ulster Unionist
pressure to begin getting rid of
their weapons and explosives,
the Secretary of State for
Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam,

admitted the IQ Marrh Awtling

may not be met for the start of
the transfer of legislative pow-
ers from London to B elfast
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part of the devolved admin-
istration, and a number of
cross-border bodies. But with-
out any move by the Provi-
sionals cm decommissioning,
Mr Trimble, the First Minister
and leader of the Ulster Union-
ist Party, wffi oppose the setting
up of a ruling executive which
would include two Sinn Fein
representatives.

Tensions between rival pro-
and anti-agreement republi-
can factions, sectarian bomb-
ings by dissident loyalists and
the increasing number Of para-
military pfinfehmiPTif hpating*; -

has heightened the pressure on
London and Dublin to try and
find a breakthrough.

Dr Mowlam insisted yester-
day that the peace process
was not unravelling, but
admitted it was at a difficult
stage which needed everyone
to keep their nerve and for
unionists and republicans to
reach a compromise on guns.

Under the terms of the Good
Friday Agreement, decommis-
sioning was not a precondition
but an obligation. Senior
republicans however have
ruled out aiy dunce of IRA dis-
armament at this stage and
with Mr Trimble warned by

by Colin Brown

Chief Political Correspondent

ins own party that this is the
(me major issue on which he
cannot, and must not give way
the peare process is edging into
a critical phase! . .

The Prime Minister is des-
perate to negotiate a resolution
ahead of another loyalist
marching season, the forth-
coming European elections and
the publication of a report by
an independent commission,
headed by the former Governor
of Hong Kong, Chris Patten on
the future of the RUC and long-
term policing arrangements. -

Dr Mowlam, who is expected
have a new round to talks with
all tee parties, accepted tee
timetable for change in North-
ern Ireland may fell behind.

She said: “Wfe missed the
Good Friday Agreement by a
couple of days. TOe may well
miss this Pro arming for it THp
people are aiming for it, but
nothing is written in stone **

Meanwhile as another two
victims of punishment beat-
ings recovered yesterday Dr
Mowlam said the attacks would
not halt the early releases of
jailed paramilitaries.

An 18 -year-oki girl needed
treatment for cuts and bruises
to her arms, legs and head
when she was attacked with a
baseball bat by armed men
who broke into a house in a loy-
alist area of Belfast Earlier a
50-year-old man was beaten
with a baseball bat and sticks
when masked men forced their
way into a house in Newtown-
abbey, another loyalist area.

Dr Mowlam told BBC's
Breakfast With Frost pro-
gramme yesterday: “Many of
the beatings, not all, are carried
out by people who are not on
ceasefire and who don't want to
see the process work. Stop-
ping prisoner releases would
achieve very little ... it would
create the exact opposite and
undermine the Agreement”

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AN AGREEMENT over the fu-
ture of Triidy, the baby chimp
beaten and abused by the dr-
cus trainer Mary Chipperfield,
could be readied within tee
next two weeks.

A spokesperson for 'IriKiy’s
owners, Mary Chipperfield
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that the company had decided
it was in the chimpanzee's
best interests to allow her to
stay at Monkey World, the
Dorset sanctuary where she
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Mazy Chipperfield was con-
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Exposed: worst polluters in Britain

By Michael McCarthy
Environment Correspondent

MORE THAN 12,000 tons of can-
cer-causing chemicals were
discharged by Britain's most
heavily polluting factories in
1996. the last year for which fig-
ures are available, according to
the environmental pressure
group Friends of the Earth.

Today the group publishes a
league table of the firms it says
are toe worst offenders, claim-
ing that one plant- Associated
Octel at Ellesmere Port,
Merseyside, which produces
lead additives for motor fuel -
was alone responsible for emit-
ting over 5,000 tons of carcino-
gens, nearly half the total

The nearijy ICI plant at Run-
corn, which produces chlorine
and related chemicals, was the
second worst emitter of car-
cinogens, with over 2,000 tons,
toe group says. Glaxo Well-
come'g drugs plantal inversion
in Cumbria was the third worst,
with over 800 tons.

In each case, the group
refers to the international sd-
entific literature to categorise
the discharged chemicals con-
cerned as carcinogenic.

All three companies yester-
day disputed the allegations,
which emerge from a remark-
able attempt by FbE to draw up.
using government figures, the
first comprehensive and folly
detailed guide to chemical dis-
charges from British industrial
plants. EntjQedFhctoryW^itch,
the report is a Domesday Book
of Britain's fiactory pollution,
though it is a web site rather
than a parchment volume.

It gives foil particulars of all
the declared rhwmrfli emis-
sions from all the L387 large
factories in En gland am] Wales
which are regulated by the
Environment Agency. There is
no information for Scotland
and Northern Ireland.

It also gives a s ummar y
available as an instant cross-
reference, of the known health
effects of all the 440 chemical
substances and groups of sub-
stances involved, which include
threats to people’s respiratory
and hormonal systems as well
as the threat of cancer.

And it also lists the plants by
postcode - so anyone can find

Albright and Wilson
UK Lid 67,490

CourtauWS
Chemicals 353, 600 1-

ZenscaLM

38,000

European Vinyls
Corp 761,430

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as. 050

IO Ltd (Runcorn)
2 , 150,499

Associated Octel Co
Ltd 5333387

Shell UK Ltd ~
37,01

Mancell Ltd
87,400

Glaxodwn lu

813,400

Repdreat emissions or recognised
and roge ns to air; 1995, *g

1 »- — . — JlCI Ltd (N T«w)

1 ' 1 575,000

Hodgs<ji Cnerrttcais 1
Lid 89.570 (

ZanecaUxi

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361,412

BASPPLC "

47,363

Symbomer Ltd

95,000

Dow Chemical Co
Ltd 1 17,601

Reafcei

Manufacturing

233,400

CRia Gdgy PIC
50,160

Rhone-Poulenc
Rom Ltd 56.702

out which factories in their
own neighbourhood are emit-
ting potentially dangerous
chemicals, what the health
effects are thought to be, and
exactly how much, according to
the Government’s own figures,
is being discharged.

The group lists the 97 facto-
ries, from Exeter in Devon to
Crazolington in Northumber-
land, which, according to gov-
ernment figures, each emitted
more than a ton of known can-
cer-causing chemicals in 1996.
FoE says the full total of emis-
sions was 12^00 tons.

It grades all 97 in a league
table with some of the British
chemical industry’s best-
known names near the top,
including Albright and WOson,-
Shell, Dow Chemical, Cour-
taulds and ICL which alone
has four plants in the top 20.

“If league tables can help
schools and hospitals get bet-
tec they should help industry
get better as wen," said FbE’s
pollution campaigner; Mike
Childs. “The worst are being
allowed to release a quite
appalling amount of health-
threatening pollution and the
r^rop mmfinr must tnfr p tougher
enforcement action. It must

now deliver on its election
pledge, and publish compre-
hensive pollution inventories.

‘Then we can all find which
pollution sources are threat-
ening our health.”

The figures for the amounts
of substances released are not
disputed by the companies -
they are the figures they have
themselves reported to the
Environment Agency. But they
disagree that some of the
chemicals are carcinogenic.

Associated Octel accepts
that in 1996 its plant at
Ellesmere Fort emitted to the
air 66 tons of lead, 5,218 tons of
chloroethane and 8 tons of
vinyi bromide.

But it said at the weekend:
“According to the fflarid Health
Organisations International
Agency for Research go Cancer;
toe carcinogenic status of these
substances is as follows: lead
and chloroethane - no ade-
quate evidence of a carcino-
genic effect in humans; vinyl
bromide- limited evidence of a
carcinogenic effect in humans.

“These classifications, from
a global authority on cancer,
reveal the inaccurate nature of
the claims.”

However, Friends of the

5,000-ton Fallout Puts Factory in a League of its Own

This is the Associated Octel plant
at Ellesmere Port. Merseyside,
which tops Friends of the Earth’s
(isc of polluting factories in Britain.

It is a factory manufacturing
tertraethyl lead, the petrol additive
that is now being phased out in
Europe because of health risks, but
is still in use in many countries,
especially in the developing world.

According to Friends of the
Earth’s analysis, in 1996 - the last
year for which figures are available
- this one site alone emitted nearly

half the total of potentially cancer-
causing chemicals discharged by
large British factories. The group
says char, according to the
Chemical Releases inventory
maintained by the Environment
Agency, the factory emitted a
“terrifying" 5,339 tons of
recognised carcinogens.

These consisted of 5,213 tons
of chloroethane; 66 cons of lead
compounds; 5 1 tons of lead;

8 tons of vinyl bromide: and
1 2 tons of 1.2-dibromoethane.

The company said yesterday:
“The claim is false. The company’s
emissions standards are subject to
rigorous supervision by the
Environment Agency. All the
processes on site are covered by
licences issued by the Environment
Agency and the company operates
in compliance with those licences."

The company claimed the World
Health Organisation had found
little evidence to prove that lead
vinyl bromide and chloroethane
were carcinogenic In humans.

The company added: "Friends of
the Earth should have made it
clear that the concentrations of
the substances emitted are so low
as to present no health hazard
either to the workforce or the
local population, based on
standards sec by the Health and
Safety Commission."

Technical improvements and
other changes will mean chat
emissions in 1999 will fall to a
level of less than half their 1996
levels, the company said.

Earth quotes the US Environ-
mental Protection Agency's
assessments of lead and
chloroethane. On lead, the EPA
says: "Human studies are
inconclusive regarding lead
exposure and cancer while
animal studies have seen an
increase in kidney cancer from
lead exposure by the oral route.

EPA has classified lead as a
probable human carcinogen. ”
On chloroethane. the EPA says:
“There are no h uman cancer
data available for chloroethane,
but animal studies have shown
fit] to be carcinogenic.”

Mr Childs said: “Fbr may of
these chemicals, the work to
see whether they cause cancer

in humans has not been carried
out The easiest way to test this
would be to experiment on
humans, which is, of course,
completely out of the question.
Therefore we have to rely on
data that does exist, often data
on animal tests. Where a chem-
ical has been shown to cause
cancer in animals, then the

prudent thing to do is to treat
it as though it could cause can-
cers in humans.”

FbETs move was welcomed
yesterday by the Environment
Agency; but it pointed out that
since 1996 several of the plants
named had made significant
reductions in their missions.
Those of Associated Octel fell

by 29 per cent in 1997 ’’and
further reductions are expect-
ed in the near future’'. The
agency said improvements
were In hand at the 1C! Run-
corn plant which were
expected to bring "substantial
improvements”.

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FOREIGN NEWS/11

Schroder

setback

; in first
! poll test

IggL;;**

gerhard Schroder'S hon-
eymoon with Ge rman voters
eftme to a sudden end yester-
day as his Soda] Democrats
seemed set for an unexpected
defeat in the first regional elec-
tions Knee September’s change
of government in Bonn.

Voters in Hesse, a large,
prosperous state in central
Germany flocked to the Chris-
tian Democrats, who had been
out of the regional government
since 1991. According to early
projections, the Christian De-
mocrats were heading for some
43 per cent of the vote, while the
Social Democrats were scoring
just below 40 per cent

Upon the final outcome
hangs the national govern-
ment's ability - to push new laws
through parliament Early last
night it looked as though the
Christian Democrats might be
able to form the regional gov-
ernment with the help of the
Free Democrats. Such a result
would rob Mr Schroder of his
majority in the upper federal
chamber, the Bundesrat pro-
ducing the sort of legislative im-
passe that paralysed Helmut
Kohl's administration in its
final years.

Although Social Democrat
leaders sought to present the
debade as a little local difficulty
there is little doubt Hesse's 4.3
million voters were expressing
a verdict on the coalition in
Bonn. The current regional
government of Hans Eiehel, a
veteran Social Democrat, is
popular.

Like Mr Schroder's admin-
istration. the outgoing govern-
ment of Hesse consisted of
Social Democrats and Greens.
The region has a strong Green
party that grew out of the Six-
ties revolt and subsequent anti-
nuclear protests. It was in
Hesse that Germany's Greens
first entered office, in 1985.

Byimre Karacs

in Bonn

when a Frankfurt activist
named Joschka Fischer took
the oath as environment min-
is ter wearing a sports jacket
and trainers.

Many Greens disapprove of
Mr Fischer's performance as
Foreign Minister in Bonn,
blaming him for caving in to Mr
Schroder’s Social Democrats
over the pace of nuclear-plant
closures.

The Greens’ share of the
vote fell back from ll percent
in elections four years ago to
less than 7 per cent yesterday.

The most important issue,
though, had nothing to do with
the performance of Greens,
local or otherwise. Two-thirds
of those polled said they were
opposed to to the new nation-
ality law the Bonn government
was proposing to ease the in-
tegration of foreigners.

Breaking with their middle-
of-the-road traditions, the
Christian Democrats took their
protest against the new law into
the streets. Their petition,
launched in Hesse, netted more

than half a millio n si gna tures

in recent weeks.

As conservative politicians
campaigned with slogans such
as “'We don't want Chinatowns
in Germany", voters were in-
vited to sign up to an essentially
xenophobic plebiscite. The
CD IPs allies, the Free Democ-
rats, had expressed their dis-
gust at the petition and nearly
lost their seats in the regional
assembly as a result

Despite the outay, right-
wing Christian Democrats felt
vindicated. “If this result stays,
we shall use our new majority
in the Bundesrat to scupper the
Social Democrats’ plans," An-
gela Merkel the CDIPs secre-
tary, said last night

Ibrahim Rngova (right), the moderate ethnic Albanian leader, walking in the park of the chateau at Rambouillet yesterday

Manoocher Deghati

Inside a sealed chateau, hostile delegations
from Kosovo talk peace in separate rooms

WITH THE dignitaries departed
and ceremonial done, the Unit-
ed States chief mediator;
Christopher HM, received same
encouraging early signals as
Serbs and ethnic Albankns yes-
terday started their pressure-
cooker negotiations for a peace
settlement in Kosovo in earnest
Tb talk of a foil-scale “con-
ference" is premature. The con-
tacts between the two
profoundly hostile delegations,
inside a firmer royal chateau at
Rambouillet near Paris sealed
from the world fry hundreds of
French security police, are fbl-
lowing the “proximity talks" for-
mat whereby the protagonists
gathoin separate roams and Mr

By Rupert Cornwell
in Rambouillet

Bill shuttles between them con-
veying their views.

But for all the bitterness
bom of a savage year-long war
which has taken 2,000 lives, the
two sides have accepted the 10
principles on which the six-na-
tion Contact Group of leading
powers virtually ordered them.
This means, Western diplomats
said, that Belgrade acknowl-
edges that the province, now
part of Serbia, must be granted
Ear greater autonomy.

But it also implies that- in
contrast to the demands chant-
ed by 200- odd demonstrators

carrying red and black Alban-
ian flags through the streets of
Rambouillet - the Kosovo Al-
banians accept they will not ob-
tain the independence from
Yugoslavia they are seeking at
leak during the three years the
proposed agreement will run.

The 13 Serb/Yugoslav nego-
tiators and 17 Kosovo Albanians
have until Saturday to reach
broad agreement on the plan
drawn up by Mr HilL If ail goes
weU, they will be allowed a
second week to wrap up the de-
tails. The target completion
date is 21 February, after which
up to 30,000 Nato troops, 8,000
of them British, will be de-
ployed to keep the peace.

The outward mood at least
seems to have changed since
Saturday when the formal
opening of proceedings by the
French President .Jacques
Chirac, was delayed three
horns because of the refusal of
the Serb authorities to aBow five
representatives of the Kosovo
Liberation Army CKLA) to even
leave Pristina for Paris.

Now, however; all partici-
pants are not only present but
have also managed something
unprecedented: a joint declara-
tion, “condemning in the
strongest terms” the bombing
which killed three people in the
province’s capital on Saturday
evening, presumably in an at-

tempt to derail the Rambouillet
talks. Never before have Serbs

and ethnic Alb anians manage d
to find such a common voice.

The Hill plan, nf which a final

draft was being examined by
the two sides yesterday, is b B0
per cent non-negotiable,” ac-
cording to US officials. But the
outstanding points at issue are
crucial. They include the exact
status of a more autonomous
Kosovo, what say - if any - Bel-
grade will retain over its affairs,
and the scope of the Nato
peacekeeping operation.

The package calls for a dras-
tic reduction in Yugoslav secu-
rity troops in Kosovo from the
current 10,000, and the dis-

Monica’s X-rated memory fails her

MONICA LEWINSKY returned to
America's television screens
at the weekend to reclaim her
role in the White House scan-
dal that will forever bear her
name. But this was a different
Monica from the exuberant
woman who was filmed em-
bracing President Bill Clinton.

By Mary dejevsky
in Washington

Demurely dressed, in daifc
jacket and pearls, she quib-
bled ova- definitions and stead-
fastly refused to inaiminate the
President, failing to “recalTor
feeling “uncomfortable" about

crucial details that might com-
plete the accounts that her
otherwise impeccable and at
times X-rated memory had
placed on the record.

While few minds were
changed by Ms Lewinsky’s tes-
timony, it did cause one influ-
ential Democrat to waver

Senator Robert Byrd, 81,
said yesterday. “It will be very
difficult to say “not guilty 0 .

The Senator's new misgiv-
ings appeared not to be shared
by his fellow Democrats, who
looked certain to vote en bloc
to have the charges dismissed
at the end of the week.

It’s Time
Notebook Pi

banding of the KLA with three
months. Within nine months,
and under strict international
supervision, elections will be
held for a new Kosovo assem-
bly. However; vast power will be
vested in the head of the in-
ternational monitoring force,
meaning that like Bosnia, Koso-
vo will become a Western pro-
tectorate in all but name.

■ Thousands marched yester-
day behind a cortege of tractors
carrying the bodies of nine
village men slain last month in
a police raid on the village of
Racak, to all 25 ethnic Albani-
ans and one Serb policemen
died. Up to 5,000 people
marched behind the coffins.

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CA1JFORN1AS NEW governor;
Gray Davis, signalled toe be-
gfoning of what could be die most
intense spate of judicial killings
in the state's history this week-
end fcydenjingdeiiKay toa for-
mer Buddhist monk said by his
own jailers to be a model inmate
who does not deserve to (fie.

Jaturun Kripougs, a Thai na-
tional was convicted of robbing
a shop and murdering two of its
employees in 198L Champ i-
oned by civil rights activists, the
famili es of his victims and the
Thai g o ver n ment as well as em-
ployees of San Quentin prison,
he could have been an ideal
candidate for clemency if the
Democratic governor wanted to
reverse the hardline pro-death

BY ANDREW GUMBEL
in Los Angeles

penalty stance of his two Re-
publican predecessors.

But Mr Davis, who took office

on a pro-capital punishment
platform and now appears un-
willing to risk losing the support
ofacoreccmstfoiencyby“goiDg
soft" on crime. On Saturday, he
said he was turning down Mr
S&ripongs’ last-minute appeal
for clemency. “Model behav-
iour cannot bring back the lives

of the two innocent murder vic-
tims," he said.

Siripongs is scheduled to
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ETHIOPIA and Eritrea, ignoring
C ®“S for restraint, were battling
yesterday for control of their

wAwnnaseamaaay
of dashes. Eritrea said its larg^
pf southern neighbour had
launched an offensive in the
heavily militarised border area
of Badme and was deploying
helicopter gunshrps to back up
ground forces.

first but had beat en back an
assault on its military post in
Badme and was stren g th ening
its position. It also said Eritrea
had started shelling on anoth-
er front farther east

In New York, the United
Nations Secretary- General.

Kofi Annan rallaH on the tWO
Horn of Africa nations to stop
fighting and find a peaceful
solution. “The alternative, con-
tinued fighting, is completely
unacceptable to the interna-
tional community” he said.

The UN, the United States
and the Organisation of African
Unity have tried but failed to
resolve the conflict despite
shuttle diplomacy between As-
mara and Addis Ababa in re-
rent weeks.

Both sides blame the other

BY ALEXANDER LAST
in Asmara

for the eruption of dashes on
Saturday but also claim to have
gained the upper hand.

Eritrean officials said hun-
dreds of Ethiopian soldiers
were killed and 100 taken pris-
oner as two brigades were put
out of action and two others
were heavily battered. But an
Ethiopian spokeswoman said
its forces captured Geza
Gerlase, “a strategic Eritrean
military post that commands
control of Badme plain”.
Badme is a rocky triangle of
land at the western end of
the border and was occupied
by Eritrea during a war be-
tween the two countries last
May and June.

Hundreds of soldiers and
dozens of civilians were killed
after fighting broke out along
three fronts. The two sides
agreed to a moratorium on
cross-border air raids in June
but have since reinforced
their positions along the 825-
mile border and all efforts to ne-
gotiate a peaceful settlement
have foiled.

Britain and Germany on

Saturday advised their nation-
als to leave Eritrea as the gov-
ernment told people to stay
indoors because of possible
Ethiopian air raids against As-
mara. But the capital appeared
calm yesterday.

Ethiopia’s state-owned air-
line announced that it was
moving its operational head-
quarters from Addis Ababa to
neighbouring Kenya as a
precaution against Eritrean
bombing raids.

M The man whom January 1941
led the French cavalry's last
charge on horseback has died,
aged 85. Lt-Col Jean Ballarin
was a non-commissioned officer
in a Spahis (French North
African Arab light cavalry) unit
fighting alongside British
forces in Eritrea when he led
the charge, sabre drawn,
against Italian troops at Um-
berga. It went down as the last
flourish of a romantic though
bloody tradition.

Raiiar in iaier par ticipat ed fa
the capture of Hitler’s Bavari-
an mountain retreat in 1945 and
was awarded the Cross of the
Liberatioa given to the most
deserving members of the
French Resistance.

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King Leka of Albania with Queen Susan, their son Prince Leka and dogs

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Exiled king
arrested as
police seize
arms cache

THE PRETENDER to the
Albanian crown has been
arrested at his home in Jo-
hannesburg after the discover}'
of a large quantity of arms.

grenades and landmines. South

African police said. He will
appear in court today on
charges of their illegal posses-
sion.

Leka Zogu, known by
Albanian monarchists as King
Leka I, was arrested on Friday
along with three employees.

Police said an arsenal of
weapons, including more than
70 firearms, was removed from
the 59-year-old’s home in Ftour-
wnys, a northern suburb. It
contained AK47S, 22 sniper ri-
. fles, grenade launchers, a rock-
et launcher, more than 80
grenades and anti-personnel
mines.

A Johannesburg police
spokesman said a section of the
house, where Mr Zogu has
lived since being granted
diplomatic privileges in South
Africa in 1991, was “like an
armoury’*. He refused to spec-
ulate as to why the pretender-
king was allegedly storing so
much weaponry, including
14,000 rounds of ammunition.

Mr Zogu and the three men
arrested with him will appear
at Randburg magistrates' court
today on charges related to
being in possessions of
firearms, explosives, automatic
firearms and ammunition with-
out licences or permits.

A South African foreign af-
fairs spokesman said that after
the foil of tiie Berlin Wall Mr
Zogu was granted certain diplo-
matic privileges, protecting his
archives and possessions but
he did not have full diplomatic
immunity. “At the time, there
was an opinion that the Alban-
ian monarchy might return
and the previous [apartheid]
government wished to establish

By Alex duval smith
in Cape Town

closer links." with the country
the spokesman said

He added that South Africa,
after consultations with the
Albanian government, termi-
nated Mr Zogu's privileges last
Thursday. "This was some-
thing the present government
inherited from the previous
one and is in conflict with our
present relationship with the
government of Albania."

Mr Zogu, the Sfl 8in son of
King Zog - who was exiled
from Albania by Benito Mus-
solini on April Fool's day 19S9
- grew up in Egypt and is be-
lieved to have lived in England,
France, Spain and South Africa.

According to unconfirmed
reports, his father, who died in
1961. helped the apartheid gov-
ernment procure arms and
other equipment banned under
United Nations embargoes.

Mr Zogu boasts that in 1993
he entered his fatherland on a
passport issued by the “King-
dom of Albania". He travelled
there again in 1997 to campaign,
wearing military fatigues, for
the return of the monarchy But
he lost a referendum on the
issue and has lived ever since
in Fourways with his Australian
wife, known as Queen Susan.

Mr Zogu whose profession
is listed as "commodity broker"
wants an "ethnic Albania" and
the restoration of his father's
1928 constitution. He has
promised to return to the coun-
try once the 2 million Albanians
in Kosovo gain autonomy with-
in Yugoslavia.

Last June in Tirana. Mr
Zogu was found guilty in
absentia of staging an armed
rebellion in which one man
died. The killing happened at a
demonstration after the July
1997 referendum.

Sierra Leone rebels
implicate Britain

SIERRA LEONE rebels said
troops from a Royal Navy ship
had been deployed cm a military
mission in the capital. Free-
town. A Revolutionary United
Ftont spokesman said person-
nel from HMS Norfolk disem-
barked last week to an unknown
destination In Freetown.

The Ministry of Defence de-
nied it, saying Britain’s pres-
ent in the region was "entirely

ByPaulLashmar

humanitarian". Britain sent the
Norfolk to its former colony in
what it called a precautionary
move after rebels invaded
Freetown on 6 January. A
Nigerian-led West African force
has largely retaken control of
Freetown but is still grappling
with rebel infiltrators on the
fringes of the city.

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J apan turns a blind eye to tiger-bone tonic

FROM THE outside, a chilly
street in one of the older parts
oflbfcyo, there is nothing rem-
arkable about the premises of
Mr Shinano the apothecary.
Below it, on the ground floor is
a shoe shop; opposite, a row of
cheap restaurants. But mount
the narrow stairs, step through
the frosted glass door, and you
find yourself in a different
world, a world in which Mac-
beth's witches would not feel
out of place.

By the door hangs a paper
chart bearing ink-drawn
images of men and women,
their aches and pains indicat-
ed in red - this belongs to Mrs
Shinano who works as an
acupuncturist alongside her
husband On a broad table,
leaves, grasses and shards of
bark in various colours are in
the process of being ground up
and labelled.

But it is to die contents of
the thick glass jars that the eye
is drawn - a long, yeDow bone,
disturbingly human-looking,
and three dark, shrivelled
tubers floating in fluid

They come from across the
sea; between them they must
be worth several thousands of
pounds. They are the femur
and penis of the Chinese tiger,
and it is men like friendly, red-
faced Mr Shinano who have
brought it to its present plight,
with as few as 20 animals sur-
viving in the wild.

Traditional Chinese medi-
cine is a thriving business in
Japan and within five min-
utes’ walk of Mr Shinano 's
shop can be seen a zoo of dis-
membered, pickled or desic-
cated breeds used in the
concoction of its pills, salves
and tonics. A nearby shop dis-
plays deer penis, monkey
hand, bear’s gall bladder »nH
bees preserved in sake.

In pharmacies in other
parts of Tokyo are found rhino
horn, monkey head, narwhal
tusks, whale foetus and the
penis es of seals, wolfs and sea
lions. But for the traditional
apothecary, it is the tiger - its
bones and genitals, and the
pills and tinctures derived from
them - which is prized above

CITY LIFE

TOKYO

all, and for which customers
will pay the highest prices.

The bones are regarded as
a potent remedy for rheuma-
tism, the penis as a natural
aphrodisiac (“It's jus t Via gral "
proclaims the sign in the win-
dow of another shop). A week’s
supply of 100 tiger bone pills
costs 3,600 yen (£20), tiger
bone sake is £55 a bottle.

But the tiger as everyone
knows, is a gravely endan-
gered species. Since 1980.
japan has been party to the
Convention on International
trade in Endangered Species
(Citesy which bans the in-
ternational trade in tiger parts.
How can the apothecaries of
Tbkyo getaway with such open
flaunting of international rules?

“It’s OK to kill tigers for use
in these pills," explains Mr
Shinano ~ but it is certainly not

In June 1997, the Cites con-
ference adopted a resolution

urging signatories “to adopt
comprehensive legislation and
enforcement controls as a mat-
ter of urgency, with the aim of
eliminating trade in tiger parts
and derivatives, in order
demonstrably to reduce the il-
legal trade”.

The Japanese government
excuses itself from thi$
responsibility with a legal loop-
hole. Japanese law fails to ban
the trade in tiger parts which
are not "readily recognisable".
And no restriction exists on
tiger products designated
“pre-convention" - in other
words killed and imported into
Japan before 1980.

In other words - unless they
have whiskers, stripes and big
teeth -it is legal to buy sell and
possess tiger bits in Japan.

Existing stocks, the gov-
ernment insists, are “pre-con-
vention”. but Lhe only
guarantee of this is a voluntary
system administered by the
traditional medicine industry
itself. Remarkably, Japan's
own trade statistics show the
vigorous trade in tiger parts:

between 1990 and 1992,
according to official statistics
gathered by the London-based
Environmental Investigation
Agency (EIA), 70 tons of tiger-
based products were imported
into Japan.

“The treaty is undermined
and threatened by the failure
of the Japanese government,"
the EIA concluded in a report
last year. “Every day ill-
equipped forest guards risk
their lives against the poach-
ers. Final responsibility for
the gun battles ... rests with
the consumers.”

None of which impresses Mr
Shinano. “Whether China is
killing them or not is not our
problem," be says. “It's the Chi-
nese government's problem,
it's for them to deal with." And
the Cites treaty, he points out.
has made one big difference.

“Three or four years ago,
you see, we used to call these
“Tiger Bone Pills’," he says.
“But now we've changed the
name to 'Muscle Pills'." The
contents are exactly the same.

RICHARD LLOYD PARKY

China sets out
vision of tunnel
link to Taiwan

THE COUNTRY that brought
you the Great Wall of China and
the Three Gorges Dam has
designs on another mammoth
construction project Profes-
sor Wu Zhiming, of Qinghua
University in Peking, believes
there is a "good possibility" that
in 30 years time there will be a
rail tunnel linking the mainland
with Taiwan.

Forget for a moment that
China has still not lifted its
threat to use force should Tai-
wan press for independence; or
that Taipei still bans almost all
direct transport mail and tele-
phone links with the mainland,
because Professor Wu is a man
with a vision. He has selected
four possible routes for the
proposed tunnel the shortest of
which, from Pingtan Island off
the southeast China coast to
Xinzliu in Taiwan's north,
would be 144km i90 miles > long,
with an estimated cost of
l.440bn yuan t£l08bni.

"Building a tunnel under the
Taiwan Strait has been my
dream since the idea occurred
to me when travelling through
the Channel Tunnel at the
beginning of 1998,'' Professor
Wu told yesterday's official
China Business IVeridjj.

The paper said that Profes-
sor Wu's "bold conception has
found favour with scholars in
the last three years". To
encourage research. Qinghua.

BY TERESA POOLE
in Peking

China's premier science and
technology university, has set
up a Taiwan Strait Tunnel Dem-
onstration Centre with Profes-
sor Wu as the director.

Apart from the huge political
and financial assumptions
involved in arguing for such a
venture, there are the techni-
cal considerations.

Professor Wu admitted that
any tunnel would have to be
built on a stable stratum "avoid-
ing seismic belts and fault
zones". He said it would take 16
years of research and feasibil-
ity studies and a further 16
years of construction.

The past 30 years has seen
a political stand- off between the
mainland and Taiwan, which
Peking persists in viewing as a
renegade province.

Professor Wu does not ex-
plain how the assumed political
breakthrough will occur, or
whether Taiwan will be reuni-
fied with the motherland, but
forecasts that by 2030, annual
passenger traffic across the
Taiwan Strait will reach 261 mil-
lion while freight will be 317 mil-
lion tons.

Professor Wu. 58, has never
visited Taiwan, but said he
hoped to journey to the island
through the proposed tunnel in
2030 - when he will be nearly 90.

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CBI president comes under fire

KJURoih of five small
business owners want Sir
Clive Thompson, president of
the CBI deft), to resign,
according to a private ballot
run by the Fbrum of Private
Business. Hie forum said 78
I per cent of its members

wanted Sr Clive to go
»r because of the attitude of his

company, Rentokil towards
the Late Pay Act Rentokil
said suppliers would be paid
interest of 1 per cent over the
MkUand Bank base rate for bills unpaid after 65 days, rather
than the 8 per cent allowed by the Late Pay AcL Rentokil
revised its position, but the Forum is calling for a DTI
inquiry to decide whether RentokQ is in breach of the Act

EMI plays down Murdoch ‘offer*

EMI said yesterday it had received "no contact” from
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation regarding the
possibility of a £4.2bn takeover bid. EMI was
responding to newspaper reports at the weekend which
suggested that Mr Murdoch is planning an offer for
EMI at around 520p per share. EMI played down
suggestions that Mr Murdoch was reputed to have met
EMI representatives aboard a yacht at the music
industry’s »nm»»i conference in Cannes last month. Mr
Murdoch has admitted interest in EMI in the recent
past but has said prices are too high.

US engineer seeks break-up fee

FEDERAL-MOGUL, the US engineer; has asked the
Takeover Panel for permission to include a break-up fee of
around £30m in any new bid for LucasVarity, the car parts
and aerospace group. Federal Mogul will deride in the next
few days whether to increase its initial £3.6bn offer and
trump a £4bn agreed takeover of Lucas by its US rival
TRW. The deal between Lucas and TRW includes a £30m
break-up fee which was approved by the Takeover Panel.

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Mini wins breathing
space for Longbridge

Minis at Longbridge where a new version of the car will be produced, providing a reprieve for Rover’s embattled plant

John Vbos

THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE of
Rover's Longbridge plant looks
to have been secured after the
troubled car group confirmed
that the new Mini will be built
at the West Midlands site.
Rover, whose parent company
BMW unveiled the resignation
of two top directors late on
Friday is investing £400m in the
new Mini and the commitment
to its production at Longbridge
will give the plant a reprieve of
at least three years.

“The new Mini will be built
at Longbridge and the 200-400
series will also be upgraded at
the plant,” a spokesman said

Further good news emerged

By nigel Cope
A ssociate City Editor

when BMW said it was looking
at Britain's biggest car plant as
a possible location for building
a new model Trade Secretary
Stephen Byers spoke by tele-
phone to top manage at BMW
about the future of Rover after
Friday’s shock resignation of
BMW chairman Bemd Pis-
chetsriedec Mr Byers wanted
to tell new BMW chief Joachim
Mil berg of the importance
Britain attached to Rover and
its huge factory at Longbridge
which employs 14,000 workers.

Mr Byers’ office said yester-

day that he had been assured
that BMW “is looking dosely” at
Longbridge as a possible loca-
tion fora new medium-sized car.

Trade unions took heart
from the news but warned that
the troubled factory's future
was far from secure. “It's en-
couraging but we are not out of
the woods," John Richards,
spokesman for the Transport
and General union, said “Ob-
viously we want to have a very
urgent meeting with Joachim
MUberg to see where BMW in-
tends to go on tins. 11

The new board of BMW is
due to start meetings in Munich
today to discuss the new cars

programme and then the loca-
tions at which the various mod-
els will be buOL

Charles Moss, of consultancy
JD Power LMC International
said BMW was likely to choose
Longbridge over alternative lo-
cations such as Hungary only if
there was a hefty subsidy.

“It will depend how deep
the British government is pre-
pared to dig into its pockets.

“If they [BMW] commit to
build a new medium car for
Rover then I suspect they mil
be looking to the British gov-'
eminent to compensate them
for the inefficiencies that are in-
herent at Longbridge - and I

think the British government
will."

The political manoeuvring
will take place in the shadow of
increasing bid speculation. as
the resignations of Mr Pis-
chetsrieder and Wolfgang Rei-
zle have made BMW vulnerable
to a takeover. Analysts say this
could come from Fbrd, Gener-
al Motors, Volkswagen and Fiat.
BMW is valued at around filltan
but the Quandt family controls
. 48 per cent of the shares and is
thought to-be unwilling to sell.

Daimler- Chrysler 1 said bn
Friday that “by Monday there
will be at least three or four
companies bidding for BMW”.

Earnings growth at risk
from a slow economy

Littlewoods to
launch banking

THE LATEST pay deals suggest
that the slowdown in the econ-
omy is starting to trim earnings
growth, according to the latest
assessment from the consul-
tancy Incomes Data Services.
But the study adds that settle-
ments for low-paid workers in
anticipation of the minimum
wage and the new working
time regulations are adding to
employers' pay bills.

The signs that pay settle-
ments started to tafl off in Jan-
uary, one of ffie most important
months for private sector bar-
gains, will be seen as justifica-
tion for the Bank of Engla nd’s
surprise decision to cut a half
point off interest rates last
week, The consultancy’s quar-
terly Inflation Report, pub-
lished this Wednesday, is
expected to conclude that
inflationary pressures have re-
ceded.

Figures due today are ex-

by Diane Coyle
E conomics Editor

pected to confirm the weak
state of the manufacturing in-
dustry, and the absence of any
inflation at the factory gate.

The IDS report says: “While
3 to 45 per cent remains the
going range for the bulk of set-
tlements, a greater proportion
of the January deals are in the
lower end of this range.”

Of the 93 new pay deals re-
ported, 52 were worth between
3 and 3.9 per cent, and 36 be-
tween 3 and 3.4 per cent

On the other hand, a few
deals covering large numbers
of workers were' worth more
than 4 per cent These includ-
ed the settlement at Nissan in
Sunderland, covering 4500 em-
ployees.

The report concludes that
the economic slowdown is hav-
ing a dear impact in some sec-

tors, such as engineering and
electronics. For example, em-
ployees at Philips received a
low increase, while the Engi-
neering Employers’ Federa-
tion reported an average
settlement of 2.6 per cent in the
industry.

However to sectors like in-
formation technology and con-
struetkm pay pressures remain
strong because of skill short-
ages.

In addition there were high-
er increases for groups of low-
paid employees as pay rates are
adjusted ahead of the intro-
duction of the minim um wage
in April Into this category
came a 5.6 per cent, two-stage
pay rise for 78,000 textQe work-
ers to reach the £3.60 an hour
minimum by 1 April.

□ IDS Report, February 1999:
For a copy, telephone 0171-250
3434 or see the Internet at
vnow.mco7nesdata.co.vk.

LITTLEWOODS IS set to launch
its banking operations in the
next few weeks as part of a plan
to extend its business beyond
high street stores and mail
order. Littlewoods Bank will
initially offer savings and ISAs
and the services will be avail-
able in the stores and via the In-
ternet The group’s banking
partner has not yet been an-
nounced. writes Nigel Cope.

Littlewoods is also expand-
ing its home-shopping televi-
sion channel which is run in
conjunction with Granada and
launched to November Next
month will see the first products
from the Arcadia group mark*
available on the channel, called
ShopL These will be from
■Evans and Hawskshead. Trials
are also taking place with River
Island.

In June, UttlewDods plans to
offer Internet ordering. This will
enable shoppers to view mov-

ing I mag es from the TV chan-
nel on their computer screen
before placing an order.

Littlewoods claims that
Shop! has been receiving orders
at a rate of 1,000 a week with
jewellery, sportswear and
kitchen products the most pop-
ular purchases.

Littlewoods hopes to use its
mail-order capability, includ-
ing call centres and delivery
systems, to sign joint ventures
with other retailers wishing to
sell via the Internet and digital
television. Littlewoods has in-
vested around £20m in its Shop!
channel and expects it to break
even in its third year.

RAC to
seek
higher
price at
auction

by Andrew Verity

AND JOHN WtLLCOCK

THE ROYAL Automobile Club
yesterday said it will hold an
auction for corporate bidders
in an effort lo push the priceft
can fetch for its motoring ser-
vices division up to C40Qm.

The club said that the auc-
tion would run to parallel with
its stated policy of seeking a
flotation of the business, fol-
lowing the Government's de-
cision last week to block a
£450m sale lo Cendant,
the United States services
group.

At least six companies are
considering joining the auction
process, with Lex Services.

GE Capital and CinVen named
as front-runners.

Both Lex and GE Capital
which already have a pres-
ence in the motor services to-
dustry. could realise synergies
from a takeover.

CinVen. the venture capital jsj
group, was one of the leading. %
contenders to buy the motor. '
services division when the 3
RAC first put it up for sale. ;
Other Ilkety corporate bidders *
include PPM Ventures, .3
Schroder Ventures and Direct ’
Line.

While bidders privately
claim that Lhe business is -
worth no more than £330m. a . .
spokesman for the RAC yes-
terday said the flotation would -
probably go ahead unless a bid
approaching £400m was re-
ceived.

The RAC is expected to re-
lease 1998 figures for its mo*V r
taring arm in the next fere^'.
weeks. If these show s trough-
trading they could be used to
enhance the price. 'll

A £400m bid would allow the
RAC’s 11,500 full members to
enjoy windfalls of more than
£30,006 each, substantially
more than they are likely to
gain from a dotation.

However; thousands of RAC
members are excluded from
the windfalls because of their
status as overseas or retired
members.

Around 1,700 overseas
members are continuing a
legal action against the RAC's
board.

The overseas members wifl .
claim in court in a fortnight’s • '
time that they have been un-
fairly frozen out of the £400ra
sale of the motoring arm. Only
the 11,500 “full” members will .
benefit.

The overseas group claim
that representatives of the
Club made '*false and mis-
leading" statements" to Mr
Justice Neuberger to his first
court hearing last Juty when he
ruled that the Club's rules
could be altered to allow a
sale.

The overseas members are
also awaiting a judgment due
“any day now" over whether
their case can be heard to the
jurisdiction of California or
not

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Writs fly in Toyland over £70m bid

By John Willcock

WAR HAS broken out in Thyland
and the future ofNotkfy arid Big
Ears is at state. The two well-
known chfldretfs characters, to-
gether with the Famous Five
and Hercule Poirot, are at the
heart of a furious legal battle
over a failed £70m takeover
bid by the man who gave Noddy
an American accent

David Lane, who success-
frilly exported an American
version of Noddy to the United
States, is being sued by Chori-
on, the company that owns the
rights to the characters, for
allegedly digH nsang mnfirianHfll
information in relation to the
bid.

Mr Lane resigned as a di-
rector of Chorion last Septem-
ber. He launched his bid soon
afterwards using the American
investment bank Bear Stearns.
He was rebuffed by Chorion’s

Enid Rlytorfs Noddy and Big Ears playing in Toyland

board, led by John Conlan,
chairman, and Nick Tambtyn,
managing director.

Mr Lane was bidding for
the intellectual property ri gh ts
tomore than 600 stories by Enid

Blyton, which Chorion’s pre-
decessor bought from the
writer’s family for £I4m in 19%.

The bid also included Agatha
Christie’s oeuvre, which the
company bought from the food

giant Booker for £10m last

yean

Chorion is demanding dam-
ages for breach of contract,
compensation for breach of
fiduciary duty and breach of
confidence, and damages for in-
terfering with the company’s af-
fairs by unlawful means. Mr
Lane is understood to be con-
testing the action. Mr Lane
and Chorion both de cline d to
comment on the case.

Mr Lane joined the board of
Chorion, the renamed Tro-
cadero company in July 1997 at
the same time as Mr Conlan
and Mr Tamblyn arrived from
Allied Leisure.

Mr Lane became manag in g
director of Enid Blyton Ltd, the
company which owns the rights
to the famous children's
writer’s books, where he was
widely credited with setting a
highly lucrative television deal
for an American Noddy.

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BUSINESS/15

Bull market creates global imbalances

® taken as axiomatic by
®®ny economic commentators
mat rifaare prices are vastly over-
*alued, especially in the US. and
t^t this will lead to a major mar-
and economic crash in the
^yearortwo. Without question,
®is is the most important and dif-
«cult topic in the world economy
way. so it deserves careful eval-
uation.

The price of equities today is
equal to the sum total of future prof-
its, discounted back to the present
by a suitable interest rate. A rise
in equity prices might therefore
signal one of several things - that-
^spected future profits have risen
m real terms; that the appropriate
real interest rate used for the dis-
counting process has faiipiy or
that expected future inflation has
risen relative to the discount rate,
for example.

If either of the first two events
are occurring, then it is perfectly
appropriate for asset prices today
to rise relative tc consumer prices,
and there is no case for monetary
policy to seek to offset this. On the
other hand, if the third factor is at
work, the increase in equity prices
is signalling that expected future
inflation has risen, in which

Gavyn

Davies

The risk of mishap would
be significantly reduced if
Europe would ease
monetary and fiscal policy

monetary policy should be tight-
ened today even if the present-day
CPI is well behaved. The rise in
equity prices would then be rapid-
ly reversed.

Which of these three factors is
in fact dominant in present cir-
cumstances? According to many
pessimists, the third fectoris dom-
inant, in which case the equity bull
market has been a bubble.. If this
view is right, then the bubble

should be burst forthwith by the
central banks. Howevec this is not
the conclusion reached by Goldman
Sachs* equity strategists. Accord-
ing to their calculations, the entire
rise in global equity prices in the
past five years has been driven by
the first two factors -a rise in real
profits, and a drop in the real bond
yield They also calculate that the
equity risk premium built into the
US stockmarket today is around 2.5
to 3 per cent, which is roughly the
average level of the risk premium
seen in the past 40 years. (The ex
post excess return earned on eq-
uities relative to bonds has been
doser to 6 per cent per annum in
toe US, button is evidence to sug-
gest that this ex post excess return
has been persistently higher than
expected partly because of unan-
ticipated dedines in interest rates.)

Of course, if the real bond yield
is too low at present, then it follows
that equity and bond prices might
both have trouble sustaining pre-
sent levels. The global real bond
yield is currently around 2 per
cent, which admittedly is much
lower than the 3.8 per cent average
seen in the past two decades. How-
ever; a plausible reason for this de-
cline is that the inflation risk

premium built into the bond mar-
ket has declined in the 1990s for

inflation risk premium first rose
sharptym toe late- 1970s as a result
of a burst of doubledigit inflation,
and it seems to have taken about
two decades to remove the impact
of these events from the memory
of bond investors. With the world
standing on the brink of deflation,
it is not surprising that band in-
vestors now deem negative sur-
prises on future inflation as being
just as likety as positive surprises,
so the 'insurance premium” pre-
viously built into bond prices has
now disappeared. In a sense, on
this argument, the recent rise in
share prices is the mir ror image of
the prolonged bear market which
occurred in the 1970s when the in-
flation risk premium first appeared
in the bond market

Naturally it follows from all this
that any reversal in the recent de-
clining trend in inflation would
probably cause serious problems
for equities, since real and nomi-
nal bond yields, and the equity risk
premium, could all rise simulta-
neously in such circumstances. At
that point, the legion of equity pes-
simists, who have been so vocal

ever since 1995, would undoubted-
ly Of belatedly} be proved right.
However; a significant up-tick in un-
derlying inflation does not appear
to be a particularly likety eventu-
ality in 1999, so that source of trou-
ble for equities does cot seem a
mqor risk for this year.

Unfortunately, tho ugh, there are
other sources of risk to the equity
bull market which also need to be
analysed. The principal one of

rtipgg is the financial i mhalanre > at

the heart of the US economy. The
five-year equity bull market has
dearly been the prime force in re-
ducing the American sayings ratio
to approximately zero in recent
months. With net household sav-
ings at dose to zero, US households
have been operating for some fane
with negative cash flow fie with a
large private sector financial
defeat). Essentially US households
have been borrowing money from
foreigners, both to sustain their
spending at a level about 4 per cent
of GDP higher than their income,
and to buy more equities.

Has is aingjbty unusual situation,
and one fraught with danger since, -
if the private-sector deficit is cor- -
reded suddenly, this could impart
a contractionary shock on the world

economy several times larger than
the impact of the Asian and Latin
American shocks combined. Even
if the current valuation of the equity
market itself is somewhere close to
“equilibrium” (given where real
bond yields are standing), it is hard
to describe such a large private sec-
tor deficit as an equilibrium phe-
nomenon. It seems that, as real
bond yields have fallen, the very
rapid rise in equities towards their
new higher “equilibrium'* has tem-
porarily boosted consumer spend-
ing via a cut in the savings ratio.

Since this process has occurred
to a much greater extent in the US
than elsewhere, the US private
sector deficit has been translated
into a large American balance of
payments deficit This too is a dan-
gerous devel o p me nt, since it rais-
es the possibility that a shock
could be imparted to the US econ-
omy via a loss of foreign appetite
for American assets. The example
of the East Asian shock in 1997
demonstrates that such a devel-
opment could occur even in the ab-
sence of any rise in US inflation.

Is it possible that a soft landing
can be generated out of this dan-
gerous situation? Yes, it certainly
is possible. If real bond yields in the

US now stabilise, and equities re-
mafo fairly valued relative tobonds,
the rate of return on equities in fu-
ture should fell to the rate which
is sustainable in the longterm - ie

around 7.5 per cent per annum. As
consumers come to recognise that
equity returns are felling back to
normal, they might restore their
savings ratio into positive territo-
ry in which case the private sector
deficit could correspondingly be
gradually eliminated.

While such an out-turn is cer-
tainty possible, it will require sev-
eral things to go right -inflation wifl
need to remain under control, the
US balance of payments deficit
will need to be successfully fi-
nanced fora lengtty period, and the
US private sector will need to
maintain confidence in equity val-
uations even while they were com-
ing to realise that recent rates of
return on equities could not be
maintained. On balance, all of these
thing s may continue to occur, in
1999 at least But the risk of mishap
would be significantly reduced if
Europe would ease monetary and
fiscal policy allowing the US fed-
eral Reserve to tighten policy if
need be withoutpushing the world
into recession.

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Energy Group
takes price blame

ENERGY GROUP, the US-
owned electricity generator
has been responsible for near-
ly half the price spites in the UK
electricity pool over the past
year; according to figures or-
culatmg within the industry.

An analysis of price move-
ments in the pool between last
April and tire start of this month
shows that Energy Group has
been responsible in 44 per cent
of cases where the price has ex-
ceeded £70 a megawatt hour

Last month the energy reg-
ulator, Callum McCarthy, ac-
cused the three big coal-fired
generators - National Power;
PowerGen and Energy Group
- of rigging the market to max-
imise prices and their own
profits. The day after he made
his comments, the system mar-
ginal price - the amount that all
bidders into the pool receive for
their electricity- was the Izi^i-

by Michael Harrison

est for that day of the week
since the pool began in 1990 and
the fourth hipest on record for
any day. Mr McCarthy, who has
«»M Hm t tho pri ce spit i ng is ™-
feir to customers, has threat-
ened to amend the generators’
licences unless they stop “gam-
ing” in the pool for their own
commercial advantage.

The leaked industry figures
also show that in 34 per cent of
cases over the past 10 months,
high system marginal prices
have been set by a tiny genei-
ating plant in Brig& South Hum-
berside, run tty the Finnish
company IVQ. Both Energy
Group and IVO have bid fairly
into the pod in line wife the pod
rules. But critics of the system
say IVO's disproportionate in-
fluence on prices shows wity the
pod needs urgent reform.'

IN BRIEF

Axon set for £100m float

AXON, an information technology consultancy yesterday said
it planned to seek a listing on stock exchange in a placing
expected to value the company at ElOOm. Axon, which
recorded profits of £2 .5m last year; sells IT solutions to users
of SAP R/3, a leading business software system. The flotation
is to take place in March.

Internet fortune for auction founder

APAX. the venture capital group, yesterday announced the
largest European venture capital investment in the Internet
to date, ploughing $i2m (£7 .3m) into QXL, the on-line auction
service run by former Independent journalist Tim Jackson.
Apax is taking a 30 per cent stake.

Engineer opens bid attack

T*C the engineering group, yesterday launched an attack on
the management of Han Engineering as part of a £5L8m
hostile bid In an offer document sent to shareholders today
TT highlighted an expected halving of Hall’s profits in the
second half of 1998. The company said its 97p-a-share offer
represented a 38 per cent premium on Hall’s share price
before the bid became public on 4 January.

£50m radio prize for Hunting

HUNTING, the business services group, has won a £50m-a-
year contract to supply power management for the British
army's new battlefield BOWMAN radios, which are set to
enter service in 2002.

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Why the golden euro Business Account
las lost its lustre rate changes.

ssa Paterson
e

fGIX weeks ago, it was dif-
pto find anyone who was
h-h about the euro. Most
tliperts were confidently
art n g that investors would
3 snap up the new Eu-
vri currency, with sterling,
ar and even the mighty US
on the sidelines,
g “euro -euphoria*' gath-
< ice as the launch of the
Aurrency approached,

i that the pound would
. of bed* 1 the moment
ie in the euro began.

R eality has been some-
Terent The euro has
rather than strided -
for global stage, and has
pos=allen in value against
that's rpajor currencies
sho.beginning of the year
in tod of last week, the
frier down dose to 4 per
Aist the dollar, around
doult against the pound
are r cent against the
norr yen. what has gone
the

agerxformance of the
propist the dollar is easy
“Mos- it is simply a ques-
to/'ative growth rates,
w&ixd States economy
than to amaze with its
“Wi mhin e heacty eco-
ing to/th with low infla-
manv latest figures
they a at the economy -
lenmiren tty enjoying the
Tb'ce-time expansion
comp- grew by an annu-
week rf5.6 per cent in the
erde«rter of 1998, well
suitejcpe stations. It has
cxdijeen a “sparkling"
coul<

News Analysis: The new European
currency is falling far short of
expectations - so what went wrong?

economic performance, to
quote Alan Greenspan, chair-
man of the US Federal Re-
serve.

In the XI countries of the
euro-zone, the picture is rather
different The tentative recov-
ery seen in many of the Euro-
pean economies last year
seems to be grinding to a halt
Germany - Europe's largest
economy - is a source of par-
ticular concern. Unemploy-
ment remains chronically high
and the manufacturing sector
is on the brink of recession. Not
surprisingly, therefore, many
currently regard the euro as a
less attractive proposition than
the dollar

Michael Lewis, currency an-
alyst at Deutsche Bank, said:
“The main effect since the be-
ginning of the year is that peo-
ple have been looking at
growth. The EU has been
dogged by high unemployment
and tax, and this has been
taken negatively."

The relationship between
the euro and the pound is more
of a puzzle. City dealers say
that they want to buy dollars
rather than euros because they
expect US interest rates to
rise and European rates to
fed The same dealers also be-
lieve that UK rates are more
likety to fall than European
rates. So logic would seem to
impty that the markets should
favour euros over pounds. But
the euro continues to slip

against sterling, a neat illus-
tration of the dangers of
applying simple logic to ex-
change rates.

There are at least two ex-
planations for this apparent di-
chotomy. first, the pound has
historically moved in line with
the dollar because of the sim-
ilarity of our trading patterns
with those of the US. As a re-
sult, when traders see the dol-
lar going up, they tend to pile
into sterling.

Second, movements in ex-
change rates reflect changes in
expectations. Since the begin-
ning of the year; most UK eco-
nomic data has been stronger
than expected leading mapy to
revise their assumptions about
interest-rate changes. On the
Continent, however growth ex-
pectations have steadily dete-
riorated.

“The markets didn't realty
' take on board the feet that
Germany was slowing until
the first week of the year,"
said Jane Fbley, currency an-
alyst at Barclays Capital.

The euro-yen relationship is
a story on its own, and reflects
unusual forces at play in the
Japanese markets. Concerns
about chronic over- supply in
the Japanese bond market has
seen bonds prices plummet
and yields soar Many analysts
believe that the rising yields
will tempt Japanese investors
to repatriate funds from over-
seas. As a result, the yen has

appreciated against all major
currencies, including the dol-
lar; despite the extremely weak
economic fundamentals in
Japan.

Where do we go from here?
Analysts emphasise that the
structural factors which favour
a strong euro have not gone
away, they have simply been
overridden by short-term cydi-
cal considerations.

Given the sheer size of the
European currencies, the euro
seems bound to rival the dol-
lar as one of the world's major
reserve currencies, although
this may take for longer than

fining initially though t.

“I think we're looking at a
five-year horizon or even a
five- to ten-year horizon," said
Ms Fbley at Barclays Capital.

Mr Lewis of Deutsche Bank
pointed out that countries with
high savings rates and healthy
current accounts tend also to
have strong currencies. These
type of fundamentals suggest
that the euro will eventually
gain against the dollar; as the
US struggles to come to terms
with negative savings rates
and enormous current account
deficits.

It is still early days for the
euro. Its performance to date
may hare been noticing to write
home about, but fundamen-
tals suggest that, over the
medium term, it will strength-
en against the world’s major
currencies.

And a weak currency is not
necessarily bad news for the
euro-zone right now. Indeed, it
may be just the tonic that some
of its stagnating economies
need.

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THE INDEPENDENT

Monday S February 1999

Fund managers

seek better value
down the card

AFTER a long, debilitating

retreat some of the stockmar-
ketfs middle-r anking compa-
nies ate at last staging a
oome b ac fc'Bieasn mngfifaiwit

rnU rtm mJa. (L.

Kkes of Bine CSnfe Industries
and N est, has started the year
with something of a flou rish, it
opened at 4.S4&5 points and
ended last week at 5,21 L5.
Over the same period Fbofcde
gave ground.

There have also been stir-
rings in the m arke t ’s bottom
divisions with the small

Stock

MARKET

Week

bexance.

The mid and small caps
have had a poor time in recent
years. They sadly under per-
formed Fbotsie and although
they hit new peaks last sum-
mer they then suffered a
ragged, even humiliating, re-
treat Tie market’s under card
started to perk up towards the
end of last year and its revival

The wony is that it k yet an-
other false dawn. Non-Fbotsie
shares have a habit of cfis-
playing buoyancy in the qien-
ing months of a year; then

r unning out of «t»am f-y is ^

Derek Pain

die forefront of the advance.
Chemicals have since joined in
and the bid talks at Stakis
could weD mean the forgotten
hotel sector will be the nest to
awake from its stupor
This week’s profit reporting
schedule remains thin in terms
of numbers but the expected
appearance of six Bbotsie con-
stituents shows that the long,
barren rtm is coming to an end
The start of the banking
season is always an event and

share price, pence

the first six months; then the

The City’sina&tuflons have
taken ranch of the blame fcrfoe
underperformance. They have
resisted file temptation to get
involved in nao-Fbotsie stocks,

riling thf> ritffirulfy nf ftoiBng

in often narrowly traded

Rmdmanagers Eke to trade
in substantial sums and a size-
abte biying- or selling- order
on the under card can have a

d ramafi n fnflupn ee, nffpn fare-

ing the institution to compro-
mise over the price.

But there are now signs
they are strayfog back onto the
market under card. High Fbot-
sie ratings have forced than to
look elsewhere for vah. and
the bidden worth ofmaqyx ' '
smaflerpfeyra^ has been un-
derfilled by foe steady stream
of takeoverlxds and manage-
ment buy-outs.

Takeover rumours are
swirling around many long-
neglected bit players, cansing
the sort of excitement not seen
for aloagwhOe. Overlooked en-
gineers, with only a modest
Rwtsie presence, have been at

500

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althougha couple of mortgage
banks have muscled in ahead
of Lloyds TSB it is stiS the
Black Horse group which, in
the eyes ofmany kicks off the
reporting season.

Lloyds, with its overflowing
war diest, will not exactly offer
a bankers’ feast when it reports
faB-yearfigures an Friday The
results will be complicated by
provisions and write downs, but
a pre-tax fell of same 7 per cent
to £2^5bn seems likely.

As always the market will be
seeking dues about Lloyds'
next big deal Mark Ead(y and
Stephen Kirk at investment
house BT AlexJBrown say:
‘‘Wfe continue to believe that
producing the right deal at the

right time is proving to be a
very difficult task”.

But without a major acqui-
sition Lloyds could find it even
more difficult to retain the
momentum it has achieved in
recent years.

Reuters, the information
group, is another set to log on
with lower profi t s , say; £600m
against £677m. The group has
enjoyed the market’s Internet
frenzy with its sh a re s surfing

to a new 952p peak before the
prospect of lower figures in-
troduced a little caution. They
ended last week at SiBJjp. Itfell
the impact of the global slow-
down last year' and it has

tottipH th pi; t rading nrtnrfitjriTig

will not be much better in its
current year

British Airways is fikdjy to
record a third-quarter loss
with nine-month profits
emerging at £245 m, down
from £339m. The loss stems
largely from BAIsyen denom-
inated borrowings which, it is
estimated, will produce a
£ll7m deficit It has been a
dreadful year for the world's
most popular airline, with the
American Airlines affiance all
but dead and the reduction in
Hip ranks mf the higher sponrL

ing passengers hitting the
much more lucrative premium
traffic.

BSkyB, the satellite broad-
caster ten years old last week,
is another where profits vrill be
down.' Lehman Esthers' Carlo
Camp oma gnani thinks infer ™
figures wifi more than halve to
£60m and ponders (he possi-
bifity of a dividend cut Mae im-
portant however; will be the
figures for recently launched
Shy DigitaL The group’s year-
end subscriber target is
200,000. This estimate should
be beaten but it is the degree
of overshoot which wffl interest
the market

The market will also be
keenly interested in the num-
ber of completely new sub-
scribers who haw climbed
onto the pay-TV bandwagon.

Shells first-quarter figures
will be hit by a raft erf special
ite ms-a ndthelowoafHiceAn
unde^mgprofitof$85Qmistiie
popular guess with an eventu-
al loss of staggering propor-
tions, say $&5bn.Btrtditf deads
should again be increased.

ST’S third-quarter profits
are expected to nudge £800m
against £780m.

Lada gets green
light for return

The Lada, the Russian-made car which became the butt of motor-industry jokes, is
set for a comeback following the sale of its UK importer Newsflash,

THE LADA, Russia's most suc-
cessful car export is set to
stage a comeback fallowing (he
sale of its UK importer Motor
Vehicle Imports, to Auto Dis-
tributors, an Australian com-
petitor writes Andrew Verify

Auto Distributors, which paid
an undisclosed sum to bqy the
Canufoy-based business in East
Yorkshire from Inchcape, the
British distributor has revealed
its intention to revive sales aS (he
Russian marque in Britain.

Inchcape bought the import
rights for the Lada in 1973 and
th<* pars t wflnw fashinnah fe in
the late- 19 80s, when sides
peaked at more than 20,000
units a yean Popular models in-
cluded the Niva 4x4 and the
Samara hatch, which sold in
1997 for as Cttie as £5,000.

The Lada suffered a sharp

drop in sales when the car fell
out of fashion, becoming the
butt of motor industry jokes. In
the summer of 1997, imports
came to a juddering halt as
Inchcape found it could not ob-
tain Ladas which met new
British emissions standards.

Avtovaz, the Russian manu-
facturer, has struggled to make
right-hand drive vehicles to
the new' standards at a viable
price. Auto Distributors will
fare foe same obstacles, but ex-
ecutives are optimistic.

Graham Nicol finance man-
ager of Auto Distributors, said
in an interview with foe trade
publication Motor Trader that
sales could be revived. “It’s an
old-fashioned product, but
there's nothing wrong with it
and we think it could sell in the
UK if foe price is right”

Face-off over Fayed’s mansion

THE PUBLISHERS of Architec-
tural Digest are suing OK!
magaane over two photographs
trf the late Dod5 Fayed’s Malibu
mansion which the former
darns were printed without at-
tribution or royalty payments.

f)K7 ma gazine is published hy
Northern & Shell a London-
based company chaired by
Bichard Desmond, which also
publishes tides such as Pent-
house and Asian Babes.

The photographs concerned
were taken in January 1994 by
Mary E Nichols, a photograph-
er based in New York. The pho-
tos were of a Tuscan-style villa
in Malibu, California, which was
bought by Docfi Fayed three
years late:

Advance Magazine Pub-
lishers (AMP), which owns
Architectural Digest, bought a
half share in the copyright of the
photographs last July and print-
ed them in its magazine the
same month. The company had
sent pre-publicity copies of the
magazine to newspapers foe
previous month. They allowed
The Times to print two of the
photos, which were attributed to
the American publication.

AMP claims that represen-
tatives of OK! magazine started
phoning Architectural Digest
asking for copies of the photos
and for permission to publish
them. The magazine refused.
OK! then claimed that Mo-
hamed Al Fayed, Dodi Fayed’s

WHO'S

SUING

WHOM

JOHN

WILLCOCK

father; had granted them per-
mission. The wiagnTina replied
that Mr Fayed did not own the
copyright to the photoa
The magazine, accorcBng to
AM3J was subsequently phoned
“by one Lori or Leslie who
claimed to represent Mo-
hammed Fayed”. The maga-
zine repeated that Mr Flayed did
not own the copyright
On 30 July 1998 OH pohBshed
some of the photos. Last week
AMP and Mary E Nichols start-
ed legal action against Northern
& Shed alleging that it had in-
fringed their cofwrigfat, and de-
manding damages and costs.

Northern & Shell’s solicitors
Davenport Lyons said last
week that the company would
fight the case.

ONE OF Lincoln's Inn’s oldest
law firms is championing a
“Nimby's Charter” for owner/
occupiers at homes on pre-war
suburban estates who want to
stop developers from building

over their gardens and neigh-
bouring land

Dawson & Co, a firm of so-
licitors founded in 1729, has
beaten four “large, well-known
developers’’ who wanted to build
schemes on “brownfield” sites
around the fringes of London
over foe past couple of years.

tt has done so by using a com-
paratively simple and inexpen-
sive legal weapon - the
restrictive covenant

Joanna Keddie, a partner
wifo Dawson* Co, explains that
foe techmque works particularly
wefl for p«3ple who live on sub-
urban estates built in the 1920s
and 1930s, where a large num-
ber of houses were all sold with
similar conditions and where all
have identical restrictive cov-
enants in their title deeds.

If these covenants restrict
further buMngwithmtiMjvirin-
ity, as thqy almost always do,
says Ms Keddie, then a devel-
oper can be stopped even before
the planning permission stage.

Dawson & Co have stopped
housing schemes in Ealing,
Chesham Bots and Cheam on
behalf of existing residents in the
past two years by getting a de-
claration from foe High Court
that tiie residents’ covenants for-
bid further building.

Once such a ruling is issued,
not only is the proposed scheme
stopped, but any alternative
scheme in the future is also
Mocked, says Ms Keddie. It pre-

vents big property developers
“riding roughshod" over local
residents.

One of the important parts of

tn w flg many rssirfontai nn an pfi-

tate as possible when they apply
for a court declaration against a
scheme.

Last week Dawson & Co is-
sued a writ on behalf of 46 resi-
dents of Chelmerton Avenue in
Chelmsford, Essex, in an at-
tempt to include ten other resi-
dents on the Avenue in foe

declaration process.

REUTERS, the business infor-
mation gjminf, is suing Fresh-
fields, its long-time legal
adviser; claiming that the City
law firm caused it to significantly
overpay for a company ft bought
five years ago.

In 1993 Freshfields carried
out a due dQi&ence investigation
on behalf

Health, an on-line health infor-
mation company that Reuters
subsequently bought for £l3m,

Now Reuters is accusing
Freshfields of “breach of duty".
It claims the law firm foiled to
alert it overa contract between
VAMP and a third party which
has ended up casting VAMP
more fo«n £L6 hl This almost
swallowed up VAMP's entire
profits for 1993, of a. 7m.

The acquisition of YAMR a
small British company special-
ising in computer services to

doctors, marked Reuters’ debut
to healthcare and was supposed
to spearhead the group’s ambi-
tious drive into IT systems for
foe medical industry

Reuters claims that an
agreement between VAMP and
IntMBgent Computer Services
(ICS), which gave VAMP ex-
clusive rights to sell ICS'
“TALK” computer software to
the UK, meant VAMP was
worth for less than the due dili-
gence report suggested.

VAMP had agreed to pay
ICS certain sums if it foiled to
readt certain sales targets for
TALK.

In file event sales of TALK
were disappointing and in 1996
ICS launched legal proceed-
ings against VAMR Hanning
£160196$ under the terms of the
agreement

Reuters now claims that if
Freshfields had told it of the ICS
deal: “Reuters, having regard to
the risks associated ... would
have refused to pay foe price
which it did in order to acquire
foe shares in VAMP and would
only have purchased such
shares Of it purchased them, at
all) on terms which fully re-
flected such risks."

A spokeswoman for Fresh-
fields said last week. “Yes, we
have received the writ and yes,
we are defending the action.”
Freshfields is using another
City law firm, Lovell White
Durant, to fight its case.

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1

THE INDEPENDENT
Monday 8 February 1939

SPORT

V

Arsenal striker faces England on Wednesday dose to general acceptance as world champions* spearhead after just four caps

Anelka excels as ultimate predator

Richard

Williams

IT’S SAID that he didn't even
watch the Wbrid Cup final He
was at home, 30 miles from the
Stade de France, but he didn't
bother to switch on the televi-
sion. A month earlier he’d been
one of six players told to pack
their bags when the squad was
cut from 28 to 22. So w hite his
former team-mates were
entering history; he took a ball
out into the streets where he’d
grown up and had a kick-
around with his mates. At 19,
Nicolas Anelka is already one
of a kind.

Nowadays, cool is a word
that means the same in English
and French. C'estcool, the way
Anelka tabes his goals without
a flourish and celebrates with-
out a smile. Ib adults, it seems
unnatural, to kids, it’s the only
way

u Ah oui, Anelka,” sighed
Andrd Mdrelle, who coached
him between the ages of the 13
and 16 at Clairefontaine, the
French national football insti-
tute. “'Well, he's some sort of a

‘ He's got a very higfi
esteem of himself, which
is good when you're a
forward. He’s going
to be outstanding’

»

and sleep. In Trappes, it’s real
life. My friends are here. Like
before. Some people may say
IVe changed, but I know it's not
true. I never forget anything,
above all ray roots."

HE LIVES in Edgware now, in
a house with hfe older brothers,

Claude and Didiex; who are
aged 31 and 29 respectively. He
fms made it dean quite rea-
sonably that English pub life

doesn’t appeal to him, but from

a distance it seems an unnec-
essarily insulated existence.
ArsCne Wenger is reliably said
to have misgivings about its
effect on his starlet The recent • ■
arrival at Highbury of David V
Grondin, another French
teenager; may have been at
least partly calculated to
improve hfe social life, and die
two travel to Arsenal's training
sessions together in Aneilca'S
Mercedes cabriolet

He doesn't g i ve i n te rv iews to
, English journalists, and is-. .
bright enough to understand
the consequences. "In the end,
this image has stuck to me
because I've dose nothing to
remove it Honestly I don’t
care what other people think
about me. I know who I am and
what Tm worth.”

Didier; who has business
qualifications, handles Nico-
las’s commercial interests, and
described to L’Eqiope hfe plea-
sure in confronting David Dein,
Arsenal’s managing director;
during a contract renegotiation
before Christmas. “Tt was a tang
and difficult process,” be said.

‘The world of
professional sport is a
jungle... It’s time to stop
talking about things
like loyalty to a shirt ’

rebel Not a bad boy. But dur-
ing the three years he was
here I never had the impression
he was listening to me. I don't
know. Maybe he was listening.
But he was never giving this
impression. He seems to be
saying, T in doing what I like,
arri thinking what I Hke.’ It’s dif-
ficult to persuade him to have
a relationship."

There’s plenty of evidence to
support the view that Anelka
isn't interested in ingratiating
himself. He didn’t bother to
hide his disappointment with
Aim6 Jacquet last summer;
just as he had foiled to see the
justice in criticisms made by
Gdrard HouDier when the pre-
sent Liverpool manager was in
charge of the French Under-20
squad at the 1997 World Cham-
pionships. Even Nike, where
brattishness is a marketable
commodity irritated him to the
extent that he refused to renew
his contract. And only since be
scared in last season's FA Cup
final -a goal full of pace, power
and perception - have ArsenaTs
fans begun to recognise his
quality.

Yet bis future as one of the
stars of world football seems
beyond doubt. Houlliec who
once told me that Anelka was
the most talented young play-
er in his position that he had
ever seen, recently added a pre-
diction that “if his mental atti-
tude is right, one day he'll win
the BoJBon d’or, definitely.”

Carlo Ancelotti, who takes

‘Nicolas has no doubts. He. thinks, Tm the best Ovennars? Bergkamp? Not a problem. Tm as good.” It’s his strength. No emotion'

over as the coach of Juventus
next season, has been over-
heard describing him as “the
Vhn Basten of the new millen-
nium", according to the current
edition of FimrFOurTivo maga-
zine. After a mere four in-
ternational caps, and a solitary
goal he arrives at Wembley on
Wednesday night dose to gen-
eral acceptance as the new
spearhead of the world cham-
pions' attack.

But yesterday the young
centre-forward found himself
not for the first time, making
headlines on the back page of
a British tabloid for something
he had said to a French news-
paper. Last autumn he had
spoken of being bored with his
life in Britain. Now, on the day
after his goal had helped
Arsenal to a 4-0 win at Upton
Ftirk.it was a remark about one
of his team-mates, the Dutch
winger Marc Overmars.

“It's the absolute truth that
Overmars plays exclusively for
hfe own benefit” Anelka told

UEquipe, “and that he never
gives a scoring pass. Why
shouldn't I say that? There's no
reason why I should shut up
about having to run like a bird-
dog after the missiles that he
aims out to the wings, where
Pm left with no choice but to put
them bads into the centre so
that he can take advantage of
them to shine all by himself,
which was his aim all along...”
Whatever criticism his com-
ments attract, Anelka won’t
mind. Or at least be won’t allow
himself to be seen to mind,
which maybe more important
“He's got a very high esteem
of himself” Houliier said,
“which is good when you’re a
forward. He's going to be out-
standing. He's very quick with
the ball which is different from
being quick without the ball He
prefers to have the ball and to
be faring the goal then he ran
dribble and score. As soon as he
starts running for goal It's
very difficult for a defender to
catch him without committing

a foul He has two good feet
And now he realises that he has
to work more. Mqybe he had a
mental problem before. Now he
doses down, he defends, he
runs off the ball'*

At Highbury, the fans still
grumble that he misses
chances. “He’s young,” MdreQe
said. “And he’s not just a goal-
scorer; or like Jean-Pi erre
Papin, who I coached here and
who was only interested in
scoring goals. But Nicolas has
no doubts. He thinks, Tm the
best Overmars? Beigkamp?
Not a problem. Pm as good as
Bergkamp.’ I think it's his
strength. No emotion.”

HIS PARENTS are from Mar-
tinique, but he was born in
Trappes, the sort of multiracial
suburb that gave rise to the
harsh neo-hiphop culture de-
picted in Matthieu Kassowitz’s
celebrated film La Haine
(“Hate”) a couple of years ago.

Plain de Nauphle, the sector
of Trappes who® he grew up,

isa town planner’s dream of the
way ordinary working people
ought to live. Tree-lined
avenues and grassy knolls
divide dusters of colour-coded
apartment docks optimistically
named after great cultural fig-
ures: Daumier, Gauguin,
Courbet, Cocteau, Stendhal
Camus: Between two of these
dusters is where Anelka grew
up, in a variation of toe dream
- the Square \tin Gogh, a little
warren of terraced streets
intended to recreate a vision of
rural France, full of sand-
washed houses with steeply
pitched pan tiled roofs and
wooden shutters. In pursuance
of the ideal his street was
ludicrously diristened the Rue
du Moufin de la Galette, the
street of the flour milL

It’s not Compton or toe
South Bronx, but it certainly
isn't the fulfilment of its own
dream. When working people
aren't working, they stop con-
forming to toe desired social
pattern. The ethnic mix in

Ttappes reflette FYendi impe-
rial history, from the Maghreb
to Indo -China. The cassette
stall at the open-air market
seDs only zouk and rai In the
daytime it’s curiously quiet
Outside the bleak apartment
blocks and terraces thane are
no signs of individual self-
expression.

“It's a very difficult place,”
said Claude Rondeau, sitting
beneath posters of Youri
Djorkaeff and Zinedine Zidane
- stars of France’s rainbow-
nation team —in his office in toe
Trappes gendarmerie. “A ghet-
to, a lot of kids, a lot of unem-
ployment , a certain amount at
drugs, a lot of angry people, a
lot of small crime. The kids get
together at night Sometimes
they set fire to a car”

Not surprisingly; Rondeau
lives 10 miles away; in a town
where he is the general man-
ager of the football dub. But he
seems proud of the feet that
Anelka played his first games
for FC Trappes, and that he

Empties

chooses to return frequently.

“Nicolas’s parents are good
people,” Andre MCrelle said.
“His mother is a secretary at a
lyde, and his father works in
the post office. But in these sub-
urbs the boys spend their time
in groups, and they fed very
rejected by society. There is no
respect They hate police, they
bate authority, they attack
buses because the drivers are
wearing a uniform. Nicolas was
not on toe worst side, not a bad
boy. But toe education in these
suburbs had an impact”
During his years at Claire-
fontaine he showed tittle apti-
tude for school work. “Not
interested,” Merelle said. “A bit
arrogant There’s a special way
of speaking a certain tone of
voice. It says, Tfo, I don’t want
to get in contact with you.’ ”

A soefotogist might not be too
surprised to learn that Anelka' s
primary loyalty is to hfe suburb.
“Coming back to Trappes is my
recreation.” he said last yean
“In London, it’s all just work

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an counter-offer, he found him-
self feeing toe three Anelka
brothers. We couldn't be broken
dewn, and in the end it was he
who gave ra."

Their strategy is based on
the objective of eventualtyrigO'
ing a deal with one of Europe's
top teams, by which they mean
Barcelona, Real Madrid,
Juventus, one of the BGlaneae
dubs, or Parma. Ancelottfs
words, and toe recent arrival at
Juventus of Thierry Henry,
Anelka’s best friend, may giro .
the best due yet to his eventeJ||
destination. r '

Arsenal's fens, who have
onty just begun to appreciate
him, may find that difficult to
swalkrw. But they should think
hard about something Anelka
said last week “The world of
professional sport is a jungle,
and the higher you get the
worse it is. So it’s time to stop
talking about things like loyalty
to a shirt All of that, except for
the national team, is oven Hie
only thing that grabs me is to
win, to colled, medals, and to
improve until Fm the best”

It’s almost 40 years since
Jean-Luc Godard described
the youth of modem France as
“the dukfren of Marx and Coca-
Cola”. In Nicolas Anelka. who
reconciles a chilling degree of
commercial self-interest with
an absolute contempt for the
machinery of sport's rampaaT’*
free market, we may be gHmpS^
ing toe finished article.

Darkest recesses of Wembley laid bare

Wendbley: The Greatest Stage
Tom Watt and Kevin Palmer
Simon and Schuster
£20 hardback

IN PREPARATION for the 1948
Olympics, they dug up the old
running trade at Wembley and
relaid it using 800 tons of ash
from fireplaces in Leicester
“Why Leicester’s cinders
should be preferred remains
an Olympic trade secret,” says
this history of the stadium's
first 75 years.

Probably some hefty pay-
offs Involved. It is around toe
margins of the Wembley story
that this account is at its
strongest

The most familiar Wembley
images -the policeman on the
white horse, the Matthews
final England's World Cup
and Matt Busby’s European
Cup - have been dissected in
detail elsewhere.

Book of
the Week

It is in exploring Wembley’s
darker recesses that it ex-
cels. Wembley has plenty of
dark recesses. Although it fe
the big football set-pieces that
dominate toe national memo-
ry bank as the bulldozers pre-
pare to move in, it was
greyhound racing and speed-
way that paid toe bills.

The book also gives ac-
knowledgement to toe fact
that in most years of its exis-
tence, Wembley’s second-
biggest event has been the
Rugby League Challenge Cup
final. Not that its significa n ce
was appreciated. When Wake-
field Trinity beat Wigan in
1946, their scrum-half Herbert
GoodfeHon; earned £15. But he
was docked £7.50 from hfe

wa g es as a miner and onty
avoided toe sack for missing
his shifts because his pit man-
ager had been at Wembley.

Some of Wembley's most
illustrious figures have
played some less well-known
roles at toe stadium. Busby,
just a few weeks after his first
great Manchester United
team had won the Cup final

was honorary unpaid team
manager of the amateur
Great Britain side in toe 1948
Olympics. They lost in the
semi-finals to a Yugoslavia
team mar kedly shnilar to the
one that represented them in
internationals.

Wembley has not always
been kind to men who should
have achieved the crowning

moments of their career
there.

Those who never saw him
play still refer routinely to toe
Matthews Final of 1953 - al-
though Sir Stanley himself,
has always insisted that It
should be known as the
Mortensen final - but 1954
should have been the more al-
literative Finney Final. In-

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stead, Tom, the Preston
plumber; had what he re-
garded as the worst match of
his life as North End lost 3-2
to West Bromwich Albion.

FOotball has debased the
currency by playing the final
of every tin-pot competition at
a ground which has now
largely sacrificed its air of
mystery. With the old place
now cm borrowed time, anyone
who has rubbed shoulders
with It will have their own
ideas of its most memorable
yean

How about 1985? Within a
few weeks, we had one of
Wembley’s most compelling
contests when Wigan beat
Hull 28-24, Kevin Moran be-
came the first man sent off in
an FA Cup final at to stadium
and toe bizarre event that
was Live Aid. All human life
was there.

DAVE HAD FIELD

France should hold
England to a draw

ENGLAND CAN hold France,
the WOrld Cup winners, to a
draw in their international at
Wembley on Wednesday.

Anyone who has backed
Howard Wilkinson to be the
next permanent England man-
ager will be hoping for a con-
vincing win for the hosts - any
bookmaker allowing panto's
to back England to win and
Wilkinson to be next England
manager in a double fe offering
good value because they are
surety related contingencies -
bm anyone who has backed any
of toe other candidates, might
be feeling less patriotic.

France, holding the huge
host’s advantage that England,
Germany and Argentina have
all exploited to such telling ef-
fect in 1966, 1974 and 1978, won
that nwst open <rfWbrid Cup fi-
nals last summer through out-
standing defence and superior

SPORTS SETTING

BY IAN DAVIES

possession in midfield. Against
all but the most moderate of op-
ponents, the French strikers
posed tittle goal threat
Fiance have not cut much
ice so far in their subsequent
European Nations Cup quali-
fying games and there is every
reason to suppose that Ee# 5
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can nevertheless withstand the
impotent Gallic attack while, si-
multaneously the likes of Alan
Shearer and Andy Cole fell to
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flying start at

Featherstone

RICHARD CHAPMAN collected
his trophy as man of the match
m last season's First Division
Grand Final after this opening
fixture in the newly branded
Ford Premiership. He would
probably have swapped that
honour for victory in the final
and the chance to move up to
Super League with Feather-
stone. Having failed to do that,
the mystery is why no existing
Super League dub has given
him the opportunity.

Although other members of
the side that lost narrowly to
Wakefield Trinity that night
have moved on. Chapman has
committed himself to Feather*
stone and, cm the evidence of his
display yesterday, that is very
good news for them indeed.

One reason Super League
coaches might be suspicious of
Chapman is that there is so
much unpredictable variety in
his work from dummy half.
That also makes him a nigh t-
mare to play against, as
Rochdale will vouch after this
resounding beating.

No one has bad a worse win-
ter than Hornets, who lost two
of their forwards to premature
deaths within a few weeks of
each other. The loss of Roy
Powell, also a former Fbather-
stone player; was marked by a
minute's silence before the
match. No sooner was that over
and before Rochdale had even
had the ball in their hands than
Chapman had twice opened
' lem up with accurate and per-

RUGBY LEAGUE

By Dave hadfzeld

featherstone Rovers
Rochdale Hornets

32

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ceptive long passing, first for
Jamie Stokes to score and then
to spark the that
with Mickey Clarkson going
over

When Chapman exploited
the new 40/20 rule to g ai n a
scrum feed in Rochdale terri-
tory and fbatherstone’s new
captain, Carl Hall went over
directly from that scrum,
Rovers were running away
with it Only Chapman’s goal-
kicking foiled to match the rest
of his play with just one success
from his first three attempts
towards his eventual total of
four from nine shots.

Hornets had little to offer
beyond the well-honed feiHrmg
game of their playencoach and
former Featherstone icon
Deryck Fox and it was his pre-
cise boot that put the ball
between two defenders for
Andy Eyres to produce their
only try of the half.

When Fbx tried to squeeze a
crafty pass to Willie Swann
soon after; however; the ball
went to ground and Ibather-
stone went to the other end of
the field through clever han-
dling by another of their good
young players, Stuart Dickens,
to help to create another try for
Martin Law.

Another probing long pass
from Chapman sent Steve
Dooler crashing over as Fteatb-
erstrme ended the 40 mfontm
of their advantage on the Post
Office Road slope a clear 20
points ahead.

That was the match effec-
tively over; but with more pos-
session and the sniping runs of
Mick Shaw from dummy half at
last' giving them some
momentum, Rochdale were
more competitive after the
break.

They limited Rovers to one
more try a second from the
Great Britain Academy winger
Stokes after Paddy Handley,
another of their outstanding
players on the day, had kicked

ahead

The otherwise anonymous
Swann got a late second try for
Rochdale, but they had never
been in die same Hass as a
Featherstone team that will
again be a force in the division
under its new format and new

Wiethes’ George 1 Dunn is stalled fay Dewsbury defenders during the Chernies’ 30-12 victory yesterday Ben Duffy

name.

r e a ttw tuo Bfc n ooe re : Bramatt Thomp-
soo. Law, C Hall. Stokes; Horsle* Hand-
ley; Okesene. Chapman. ttddns. Clarkson,
Doolec Slate e S u bsti tute s: Coventry,
Amone. Evans, Padgett
HlOfMaie H onwtK Wilde: Eyres. Hilton.
CoulL Coussonr. Swann. Foe Knowles.
Shaw. Aston. McKinney: Bugas. Stephen-
son. Wntttatts: Hudson. R Han. Bunce.
Sculrtwpe.

I Smith (Oldham).

Rovers overwhelm Workington

■Ybung halfback Paul Deacon
upstaged the Paul brothers as
Bradford Bulls romped to a
62-6 victory over Super League
newcomers Wakefield in yes-
terday’s friendly at OdsaL

HULL KINGSTON Rovers,
favourites for the newly named
Northern Ford Premiership,
made an ideal start to the sea-
son with a 21-14 win at revi-
talised Workington yesterday.

Hunslet were the only other
team to win away from home mi
the opening day, while Feath-
erstone Rovers, runners-up to
the champions, Wakefield liin-
ity in 1998, served notice of their
intent with a 33-12 home win
over Rochdale Hornets.

Workington, who finished
next to bottom of the old Sec-
ond Division last yean made
Hull KR fight all the way under
their new coach, Andy Hath
The Cumbrians’ rw ptem l Barry
Williams, scored the game's
first try and helped create sec-
ond-half tries for Simon Knox
and Marie Wallace, but touch-
downs in each half from Hull
KR’s winger Jon Wray saw his
side home.

Hunslet away win came at

Swinton, where Mike Fletcher
scored 13 of his ride’s points in
a 21-10 triumph.

Winger Jamie Stokes scored
twice to take his tally to five
tries in two games as Feather-
stone easily overcame a disap-
pointing Rochdale ride. Micky
Clarkson, Carl Hall, Martin
Law and Steve Dooler were
Featherstone’s other try-scor-
ers. Bichard Chapman kicked
four goals for the Hornets.

Widoes Vikings turned in an

impressive show to send high-
ly fancied Dewsbury sliding to
a 30-12 defeat. The Cheshire
ride, fielding eight new sign-
ings, took control midway
through the first half with tries
from Lokeni Savelio and
French international Fbbien
Devecchi. Jim Salisbury kicked
seven goals.

The former Sheffield Eagles
loose forward Martin Wood
scored a brace tries in Keigh-
ley’s 42-16 win over Doncaster

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IRELAND'S PADRAIG Harring-
ton was “disgusted” with m-
self in Kuala Lumpur yesteruay
for missing a two-foot putt
which cost him over £17,500.

Harrington had no hope of
catching the American Gerry
Norquist when he played a 75-
yard pitch to the final hole of the
Benson and Hedges Malaysian
Open. But pulling the binffie putt
wide meant that, rather than
finishing joint second with Ger-
man Alex Cejka and another
American, Bob May, he was in
a five-way tie for fourth- Instead
of earning £33,981 he collected
•£16,434.

if “A spectator clicked a cam-
era as I putted -but it's my fault
for hearing it,” said the 27-
year-old Dubliner. "I’m dis-
gusted. I lost concentration. It
was harder to miss than hole iL
I made only five bogeys all
week.”

Norquist, champion in 1993,
took the title again by three

strokes, shooting a dosing 71
for an eight-under-par 280. It
won the 36-year-old £73,730
and, like Australian Jarrod
Moseley at the Heineken Clas-
sic in Perth a week ago, a two-
year exemption on the
European Tour - right years
after faffing at the Tour Quali-
fying School in France in a
week he described as “the most
miserable of my life.”

He was “deathly” 31, it was
cold and wet, he scored 81 and
80 in the first two rounds and
vowed never to return. “Tve not
been back to Europe since, but
I've already decided to join.
Now I need to. get more
raingear,” he said.

■ Bernhard Langer had a
triple-bogey at the last hole to
throw away a one-shot lead
and hand the Greg Norman In-
ternational to New Zealand’s
Michael Long.

Nemeth backs Williams

THE ENGLAND coach, Laszlo
Nemeth, has urged that Derby
Storm’s international forward
Yorick Williams should not be
prejudged for his role in the
trouble at last weekend’s Bud-
weiser League game at
Chester Jets. The game had to
be abandoned following a mass
brawl between players ofboth
sides, apparently sparked by an
earlier fight between Williams
and Chester’s Shawn Hartley.

BASKETBALL

BY RICHARD TAYLOR

Chester’s chairman, Joe
Lofthouse. reportedly said
Williams deserved a lifetime
ban after the trouble. The most
serious incident resulted in the
Chesterpfaysiotherapist Alison
TToughton, suffering a dislocat-
ed jaw and police are investi-
gating the assault

“As much as I condemn his
actions, it is not right to call for
a lifetime ban without a fair
hearing, ” Nemeth said.

W illiams has been suspended
by Derby pending an inquiry.

In the league, Tony Holley's
last-second shot gave Man-
chester Giants an 80-78 win
over Greater London Leop-
ards to stay level with the joint
leaders, Sheffield Sharks, who
beat Chester 84-79 on Friday

Robinson treble sinks Southgate

KEN ROBINSON, Reading's
New Zealand centre forward,
shot Reading into a 4-0 interval
lead with a first-half hat-trick at
Southgate yesterday as Read-
ing turned the tables on the
Middlesex dub who dethroned
them on Friday night from
their national indoor title.

%sterday, with both rides
minus key players through in-
jury, Reading, bounced baric

HOCKEY

BY BILL COLWILL

with aggressive, flowing hock-
ey and Strong finishing

Southgate came back in the
second half with goals from
Eiko Rott and Andrew Grimes,
but Reading never looked like-
ly to surrender and won 5-2 with
Mark Peam scoring twice.

Premier leaders Canterbury
maintained their two-point Im<I
at the top following their 4-3 win
away to East Grinstead with
Paul Wkken scoring twice. Sec-
ond placed Cannock defeated
Old Loughtonians 6-2 including

Kalbir Thkher. In the First Di-
vision Surbiton scored a 3-1 win
at Havant to lead by a point
from Doncaster

Hopkins says fighters
‘treated like whores’

BERNARD HOPKINS Stopped
his fellow American, Robert
Allen, midway through the sev-
enth round in Washington on
Saturday to retain his Interna-
tional Boxing Federation mid-
dleweight title, before accusing
promoters of treating boxers
“like whores".

Hopkins, 34, completed his
ninth title defence when the
referee stepped in to stop a sus-
tained assault Hopkins, wear-
ing trunks once worn by the late
champion Sugar Ray Robin-
son. chopped Alien in the sixth
and stunned him in the fifth.

After the fight Hopkins com-
plained about his purse and
claimed that boxers are “bring
mistreated and exploited as
whores". He said the sport was
trying to blackball him because
of his stance against promoters,
whom he assailed in recent
hearings in New York on the
business of professional boxing.

BOXING

“They tried to blackball me
from the world of boxing, but
they can't do it,” Hopkins said.
“I don’t Eke a lot of stuff that goes
on in this business. I'm stand-
ing up for my rights. Fighters
are taken advantage of It was
a disgrace 1 was only paid
$225,000 1034,000) for this fight”

The fight itseff a rematch of
a controversial no contest bout
in August was an untidy affair.
Hopkins hurt ADen with two low
blows in the fourth round, then
dominated the rest of the way.

Low punches also played a
part in the night’s other fight
The American Shannba
Mitchell, who fay on the canvas
in agony after a low blow in the
seventh, recovered to retain his
TOarid Baring Association super-
lightweight title with a unani-
mous decision over Pedro Saiz
from the Dominican Republic. I

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ATHLETICS

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meeting, the Sparkassen Cup in
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South Africa wfe by 50 rm and wtn

PMcGftlley 74 71 68 74.

PEBBLB BEACH RATIOHAL PRO-AM
CaHToniJal Lading AM-raiaA scores
US milts mead): 206 P Stewart 69 64
>. 207 F Lickllter 68 68 71 . 209 C Stadler

70 67 72. 270 F Couples 72 65 73; R Black

71 69 70; J Leonard 70 72 68: J WBIlamson
69 70 71 . 211 N Lancaster 73 70 68; T feOes

PREMIER HOLIDAYS EAST Premier:

Cambridge Untv: 6 Camtxlrice City 4; Clac-
ton 2 Blueharo 2: Ipswich 1 Col Chester 2:
Pe t erborough Town 2 Crostyv I. West Herts
2 Bedlord Town 2. 1

ICE HOCKEY

SEHONDASUPER1EAGUE: Bnrtneil Bees
4 Manchester Storm 2; Carddf Devils 4 New-
casde feverWnn 3 |ol): NoamghJm Mutters
3 Sheffield S teeters D.

s tan d ings! 1

!?

Fererborougn lew (PI S. 37pts); 2 Ipswktt
( 1 5-32): 3 ZambriOge Vnh/ ( ) 3-28).

NHL (Fri): Anaheun 5 Tampa Bay 3: Wash-
ington 4 C-rroib

BASKETBALL
BUnuKISER LEAGUE (Sac): Derby 101
worthing 66: London 68 Milton Keynes 64;

MOTctte^w 80 OeatCT London 7&

Umpfrest C } MkcMey and B Limbcat
A UST MATCH pferereh Bmtoab«w A 1 60
(S D Thomas 8-50) and 20 for 1 ; .England A
192 (A Rlntoff BOnO). ,
as a draw (rain)

71 70 70. 212 V Singh (FSU 69 67 76; D
-- - 69 71 72; B Gufetey

1 68 72. 213 5 Kendaa

CYCLING

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72 73 68. 5 Eahgton (Aus) 70 69 74; K
Sutfterlarel 68 71 74: P StankowsAl 71 70
72; D Duval 72 65 76; J Ozafal (Juan) 69

70 74. Selacted: 219 T Woods 72 69 78.
M O'Meara 71 72 76 Hmd cue 220 F
Nobllo |NZ) 73 70 77. 231 S Lyle (GB) 78

71 B2.

i RhyddbigC
Bankers 1; Durtiam Unl»3 Hant®3te2; Form-
by 6 Chester 0; Neston 4 Norton 1 : South-
port 4 Bowden 5: Warrington 3 Rotherham
1. Leading standngai 1 Formby (P16.
Pts3B): 2 Sheffield Bankers (15-36); 3
Bowdon (16-32).

WEST OF ENGLAND 9 SOUTH WALES
Prau n Ja e i Gloucester 1 Bath Buccaneers 1:
Robinsons 2 Meovil 6 Sherborne 2; Swansea
0 Taunton UHel: West Wits 1 yitesum-wper-
Mare 2: Whltchutcn 4 Cheltenham 2. Leud-

rikia 1: Colofodo 3 Detroit 1:
^RSburdr 3 FionOtO: EUmcnwn 4 Atasimfle
2. (Sac): Boston 2 PnJIdaeiphla 2: Phoenbi
3 Chicago 0: Ftoiicla 3 Carolina 3: Montreal
3 Buffalo 2; Toronto 3 New Jersey 2. Ana-
heim 4 St Lewis 3; Ottawa 2 Calgary 1 ; Los
Angeles 2 San Jose 0.

SKIING

ALPINE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (IML
Colorado) Mob's dnandiBk 1 H Motor (Aik)
1 min 40.60sec: 2 1 Kjus [Nw | 1.40 91: 3 K
AAamodt (Not) I ai. 17 Wfetnon'c doaro-
hlU: 1 R G6tschl |Aut) 1 *8.20: 2 M
DorlmeMer (Autl 1 :4S 35. 3 S Sdiustrr lAuil
1.48.37

SNOOKER
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OLYMPIC GAMES

Yushlro Vbgi. foe Secretary-Gener-

tAN s’* Scroll roand: M WUkarK (WU)

"Bond (Engl 6-0.

al or foe Japan Olympic Committee,
said yesterday an Investij

nvestigation he is

tag standings: 1 Whitchurch (PI A. Pts33l:
2Robnsons 1 14-32): 3 tawiron V3to (

r (14-25)

WOMENS EHL PrenJer: Clifton Scottish

leading into Nagano's winning bid
1998 winter Games is be-

for the

Boston 92: Orlando 93 New Tbrk 85: San
MO nb 101 Secramemo 83: IWnnesrita 1 10
□emer 92; Utah 104 Chicago 96: Seattle 9?

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ments about wtiat foe western
Japanese dty spent on entertaining
to win the bid. “My general im-
pression is that there were on sev-
eral occasions some excesses.
However, our investigation Is not over
and there is a dearth of documents
which still has to be remedied." Vbgi
said.

SPEED SKATING

The German Gunda Niemann-Stime-
mann broke her 5,000 metres world
record yesterday to win the women's
all-round world championship for on
eighth time. Niemann-Stimemann
skated in a time of 6min 57.24sec

beating the previous record of
6:58.63 she set in Calgary, Canada,

on 28 March last year.

WORLO CHAMPIONSHIPS (Huk Nar)
Man’s SOOm: 1* Htmyvki Ncuke (Jjpjn)
36.29MC, C Breuw iGet) 36.29: 3 A Son-

dral (Nor) 36.43: 4 R Rltsma meffi) 36 SI:
S K Mareh.HI (Can) 36.62; 6 M He

Henman

iNettt) 36 63. Woniis's 500m: 1 A Thonus

EUROPEAN RWBt CUP TABLE

places (teo lOatcod at nuguu
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bans 5: Old Lough mnians 3 Ealing 0: Poyn-
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2 Ealktg'(9-19): 3^ld Loughtonhas (SM4)

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3 S Sower (Get) 2.600. 4 M A JImene*

boxing

FOOTBALL

Bruce GrebOelaar, die former Liv-
erpool goalkeeper, has been forced
to stop coaching Cape Town dub
Seven Scars after two matches in

WOMEN'S EHA CUP Fowl* ranL Black-
bum 1 Slough 1 1 ; Hlghtomn 7 Sherwood 0.

IGert 1.806; ia'PsjbUM (Swe) 1.590; '11
P Fulke —

HfOUBH’S SOUTH PlreC DMdfe (Sac):

Qcy of Portsmouth 1 Southampton 4; Dul-

loe (Swe) 1.411; 12 B Lamer jGerl
1 M». 13 S lMttttr (Eng) 1.193; 14 G Brand
JnrfSco) 1.146: 15 WJIohaitaon (Swe) 977:
16 P Baker (Eng) 973. 17 S Torrance (Sea)
945; 1* PMcGHey fkf) 932: T9 P Harrfrigton

wldiOWctt Witney 0; Horsham 0 Tulse HOI

2: Fteadlng 2 Hendon 1 : Winchester ORcwer
Cowley 2 (toacedjry): Maidenhead 2 I>iF
wiett 2: Rarer Cowley 4 Oty of Portsmouth

SAILING

The overall leader Isabelle Aurissler
has taken foe lead on foe second day
of the third leg of the Around Alone
Race from Auckland to Punta del
Este. Uruguay. Close behind are foe
second leg leader Giovanni Soldini

w (Japan) 40.1 1.

SQUASH

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS IMm-
IfcJodrnnw) Men's semi - flute:

Chester 1

S Rwke (YtokS) bt L BeachU (Vbik!.) 15-917-

charge because of work permit
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SOUTH AFRICA

H H Sbbs < J0O5*» •> HP'S --- -

. . Grobbdaar cannot work

in Che land of his birth because he
is no longer a citizen and has flown
to his adopted home of Zimbabwe
and applied fora permit A decision
is expected soon.

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HOCKEY

EHL Premier. Befeton 4 GUWtoffi 2.
Broddands 2 leddlngwn 5: Cannock 6 Old
Loushwnlans 2. East Grtiasad 3 Camertauy
4: Hamsiow 0 BourmUle 2: Southgate 5
Reading 5. 1 aartlng jrrinilTiin r- 1 Gmter^

fe£ StapeHopcs 1 D|i hunch {Pi 3. Ps35): 2
Rower Cowley (15-29): 3 Southampton
(14-28)

■KNHBTS NORTH Srsc DMttac Chesfer
2 Whining ton Park 2: Deeskk? Ramblers 4
Blackburn 0; Ifyktnd Motors 1 Sheffield 2;
Unerpool 3 Don Wley 2. Laaifag 8mb^:
1 Dc c s die Ramblers (P9. 25ptsl: 2 Liverpool
(9-19): 3 Chscer (9-15).

WOMEN'S EAST RmIk Blueharts 5 Ip 1

svwtoh 0;Bury5cEdmuids iPeMotOO. Cam-
Oty OS

(Parma). TfantaB (Borentrva). I^M to to Uu-
ventus), Mbnw («V4fiW5). tlaau (Lazio).
Mridrf (Mfen) MtfMdM D Bra*

a l. tar (Parma). Aibectu (Mffin). Ba-
ld (Utjinese), Cota (Florentine). W
Francasce (Romal • Ekwkwiffi (Barq. For-
■ pw lu Chkaa (ParmsL R Bwi« (h*»-
nazlooei). Vtarf (Lazio), feed (iSma).

an Gymkhana l; Firebrands t Eastcote 3,
Hamps te ad 5t 'Nesarinstei l Sc Wans 3: Ha-
want 1 Surbiton 3; Lewes 6 Hull 3: U*rgh-
boreugh Students 2 kft 2; Oxford Hawks 3
Sheffield 4; Oxford linhi 1 Bromley 0;

bridge Oty D Snoioaks 0: Hartesten Magpies
4 Lewttworttt 0. lamlhig mpillreri 1
Harteoon (P10. fh^Sj-rilpswieft (lff-lB):
3 Sevenoaks (10-15).

WOMBTS HBULAHD P »— I an Bedford 3

Sowparr 4 Barton? Tfeare 4. Leading
; 1 Surbiton (PT3. Pcs31). 2 Don-

Luton 1; Betper 1 Norm Staffs 5; Luughbof-
Hton rcrim-

-30); 3 Lerres (1 3-29).

ougtt Students 3 Kettering 2; Oiton I
son 4. Lr wEn g r ferMg l

Bedford [P9.24ptsl: 2 Kettering (9-19); 3
Lougttboreugli Students (9- 1 7)

RUGBY LEAGUE RESULTS

NORTHERN FORD PREMIERSHIP

Barrow (6) 18. Whitehaven (101 IX Bbp-
e We» AOnibera 2. WWretoy* Hon

3. ■bitthavea: Trias Methetlngton. WBwn.
Goals Hetherfegton 2. (1.421)

Battaf (6) 30. ouhid (0) 0 Badcy: Wes
Barnett. Clarke. Harrison. Jackson Lingrd.
mere; Goals Puce 3- (1.018)
Feattaerstooej26j 32. HotbMc (6) 12.
Featbcrecoac: Was Snkes 2. Oarksen. DooL
er. Hall, Law. Goals Chapman 4 Rnrhrt a lto
Tries A Eyres. Swann: Goafs Ft* 2. (1.762)
KfegMey (261 42. Doncaster (Ol 18 Kai^b-
feyfTfes if Smith 2. Wood 2. Foster. Lau-
rence. Lee. Rkiu GoaM Bch 4. Am (HI Ik.
Doocastar; We* Mor^n 2. MSfr: Goal* Ed-
wards 2. (2.472)

Lancashire lynx (6) 13. Stanley (J2) 12.

..kw Lyruc Wes Abram 7. Grab P

Jones 2: Drop Hodghinun. Brataler- THao

D Gbbons. Rotter. Goal Kite Drop Feed 2.
(2981

Leigh (4) lfi.Vbfk (121 12 Ldgto THes Fjt-
CJrniPtt. KrreJdcJi; Goals Km»k 4 Ibrfn
Tries Deahin. Judge. Strange. (1.546)
Surinton (4) 10. H insist (6) 21 Salntnt;
Tries Ashcroft. Weisby; Goal GankmiLHuo-
Nec Wes Fletdia, ridrtuK. RLWbon. Goals
Fletcher 4; Drop Fletcher. (1.239)

Nktoes (18) 3D. Dewsbury (2) 12 WUnes:
THes Bnere. Dnecdi). Mjnnson. Sardian
Goo h Safebury 7. P—wbur w Hu Godfrey
Kershaw: Goals Eaton 2. (2.79B)
Wtorkfegtra L&) 14. Hull Ktagstm Jtorarc
|10) 21. ■farafegeoai Was Knos. wblloce.
Wilibrrer, Goal Brantimoire. Hon Kr- Tries
Wray 2. Dwby IQkIWie Goals Gray 2: Drop
Gray; (1.444)

FfKENDty MATCH: Bradford 62 Ufalefietd
6.

Korda is
thrust
back into
limelight

TENNIS

JOHN ROBERTS
in Dubai

A LINE judge called Cinderella
will make her debut at the
Dubai Duty Free Open, which
seems appropriate since Ffetr
Korda has been saying fara con-
siderable time that his career
stands “at five minutes to 12 ”.

While Cinderella EH Drouby.
from Syria, tries not to be late
for the' ball Korda is bound to
be a focus of attention, though
not necessarily Prince Charm-
ing, at the $im ATP Tour event
which starts today. It is the
Czech left-hander’s first tour-
nament since he won the latest
round in his fight to avoid a
year's ban by the Internation-
al Tennis Federation for a pos-
itive drugs test at Wimbledon
last summer (ironically. Korda
has been banned for a year by
his home tennis federation).

Eleven days ago. Mr Justice
Lightman ruled in the High
Court in London that the ITF
did not have the right to take
Korda to the Court of Arbitra-
tion for Sport in Switzerland.
The ITF is to challenge the de-
cision at the Court of Appeal,
and it possible that the re-
spective lawyers will be scoring
points when Korda. 31. is in Bat-
tersea Park competing for the
Guardian Direct Cup (22 to 28
February), after playing here
and in Rotterdam next week.

Map}' of Korda’s fellow play-
ers regarded his escape with a
fine and the deduction of world
ranking points as the height of
the pantomime season. His de-
fence at the International Tfen-
nis Federation’s independent
appeals hearing on 21 Decem-
ber was that he did not know
how the steroid nandrolone
found its way into his body.

Korda was given a cool re-
ception at the Australian Open,
where his reign as the men’s
singles champion ended with a
third-round defeat by the Amer-
ican Todd Martin. It will be in-
teresting to see if he is received
more warmfy by Ms peers here
today when he plays Ybuness El
Aynaoui, of Morocco, on the
Centre Court

The ITF, although embar-
rassed and frustrated by the
Korda affair; has no wish for a
wit ch-hu nt Deborah Jevans,
the ITFs executive medical di-
rector was pleased with the
players’ anti-doping stance in
Australia, but said: “This is not
about the individual, but what
we believe is a complete mis-
application of'the rules.”

Britain's Greg Rusedski,
who could meet Korda in the
semi-finals, considers the case
dosed. “Most of the players are
not very happy, because we
haven't been given an expla-
nation,” Rusedski said.

Rusedski, the No 4 seed, is
due to pfay the Dutchman !§jeng
Schalken in the first round
tonight Tim Henman, the No 3
seed, opens against Wayne
Black, of Zimbabwe, tomorrow.

14 15-9, P Johnson l Kent) bt M Coons (Choni

-7. Aral

7-15 15-9 15-715-7. Aral: Johnson bt Puke
10-15 15-5 15-8 1-15 15-7. Momra* Semi-
Hrali C Jjckmjn (NorfoHi) bt J A-Vvtn
(Nonttumbnal 9-09-3 9-3 Ftral: Ibcknun
be 5 iNiMu (tom 9-5 3-9 6-9 9-0 9-6 Men's
Over-35 ItaakP Conn iHrtrcl bt A Thom-
son |5co) 7-9 9-1 9-1 &-1 Mob's Ovei-40
final; N GorvonJ iCttntwci bt 1 Bradbury
(Lancsi 5-y 9-2 Sr- 1 9-4 Men’s Over-45
final: D Manning iKenn bt 1 P»Mf [Vorksl
9-610-8 9-4 Man’s Ovcr-50 final: I Hates
ports) be K RandjD (X«irl 9-3 9-4 Ml M eef*
Over-55 final: J Perron (Hams] nr G ,\Vn ■
SttaU[YorkS) 9-1 9-1 9-4 Mai’S Ovor-60
final: J Lynn |Eose) bt J White iDerfovi 9-4
9-0 9-4 te na nto Over-35 final: J UNeiU
(Avon) b< M Preuss (henii 9-0 9-3 9-5
Woollen's O ver -40 final: L Brown l Sr nth.)
bl J O Nrtll|Auon| 9-2 9-1 9-6 Woman's
Oter-40 final: 5 Wrench (Beds) bt A Mur-
phy (Esso.) 9-2 9-2 9-3.

TENNIS
pun meric open

EN (fekyo) WomraHiain-

S M Hoigis (sum I to J Novot-
na (CaRepI 6-1 6-4. ACoetre. (SAIMMSetos
(US) 6-4 0-2. Ftaak rtniw br Co«Jet 6-2
6-1

I fPr) Men’s sfexlei
■ami final: F Sanltuo (FH bt M Rosser (Sr. a

6-4 6-4. A dement (Ft) bl C Pioiine iFrj 6-4
b-1 Anal: 5ijruorobiaetneni 6-3 4-66-4.
DAWS CUP Aston Oceania Zone. Group
A: China v Nem Zratal: SMts M FCttei
INZ) bl Zhu Benqtong 6-3 6-2 7-5, 2run« VIj

(Oi)bt A Hint |N?) 6-1 6-7 6-3 4-66-2. Dov-

UtK B Steven and I Simpson (NZI br

Yu and Zhu Bcnotang (Ol) 6-3 6 -h6-0

Zealand lead in# sottac 2-1.

LTA MEN’S FUTURES TOURNAMENT
, tern*- Orate: J Hnmvlr (Aul)

(Leeds) Snstos. usnl-
btl Frledl |u Rep) 6-7 :
- “ ’tare INetttl ' c
: 7-6 6-2

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KntwJe;

UR WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT (Sheffield)

Stogies, final.- h Ci)srere(Bd) M K De MfeKe
(Nah) 6-3 6-1 Doubles final; LJdfe (Oonl

and L

fie | Suney] bt 5 De Beer ( sai
and K Oe Welile lN«h) 3-6 6-4 6-3

TODAY'S

NUMBER

The arrests at the
Romanian national
ice hockey final.
Chairs and bottles
were thrown at
police who beat a
supporter after he
chased a puck that
flew off the rink.

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c»»e®o»s- ae eg 8 £-2>3 &&g “ fg E&^sM ,£2g-_ ^

20/RACING

THE INDEPENDENT

Mondav S February 1V9$

Florida
fails to

answer

doubts

FLORIDA PEARL will start
favourite for the Cheltenham
Gold Cup next month after vic-
tory here in his homeland yes-
terday. The finish, however; is
much harder to predict

Ireland's pretender and Es-
carteflgue fought out a finish
haunttngly similar to th e ir cli-
max to the Royal & StmAI-
lianCe Chase at the Festival last
season, and recurrent too was
the question of whether Flori-
da Pearl’s stamina would
stretch to the extra and harsh-
est two and a half fUrlongs of the
blue riband.

Bookmaker speculation in
the imm ediate wake of yester-
day’s Hennessy Gold Cup is
that he will. Florida Pearl is as
short as 9-4 (with Coral) and
certainly there is a warming
keenness to his jumping, a flu-
ency in that compelling stride.
What is shrouded about the
package though is whether this
particular pearl is bom of grit

Escartefigue will try a g ain
and there was a buoyancy in his
camp last ni gh t. So then there
should be at the yards of Tee-

Fontwell

HYPERION

1.50 Master Pilgrim 3.50 Krabloorrik

220 Mr Jervis 420 Another Chancer

2.50 Colwall 4.50 Abalvlno

320 Jocks Cross

GOING: Good to Soft (Good fa places).

■ Left-hand tudto course; figire-of-rtght chase course- Trtfit dnait not witnbto for
kmg-Etrrcfrig horsea

■Courses S of vtiagertjirrfonof A29and AZ7. Bamham station (Brighton - ftxtemouth
fine) 2m. ADMISSION: Club CO; Tsttersals £9 (accompanied under- 16s free); Star
Rng £5 l CAR PARK: Picnic area £4 pits £5 for each ooapant ; remainder (tea

■ IEMMNG TRAINS®: M Pipe 87 wfas tan KJ4 rumen (2»]i P Nfchafti 26-66 (MMl
J Gifford 21-133 (68%L R Buckler 18-80 (225KJ.

■ LEADING JOCKEYS: A P McCoy 38 wins from 150 rides (253%), P Hide 23-126
(183%), ft Dunwoody 1888 (205%), J Osborne 6-51 (284%).

■ FAVOURITES: 227 wins from 531 races (success rate 427%).

BUNKERED FIRST TIME: Rad River (320).

14 cnl CHICHESTER NH NOVICE HURDLE (QUAURER) (E)
1 l,w l £3,000 added 2m 2f 110yds Penalty Value £2,565

1 41 KAR0ty(2S) (Earl Cadogan) kfcsH Knigrire 11 S If ARbganfd

2 2D- AUOAC7CT (327) (MisCZettefWstejL WMs611 0 L Aapal

3 49 JACDQR (44) (J Mattrwe: & D Erans] R Odiin 5 H 0 APMcCoy

4 350P-1 JOHN3TOffS/WT(12)(»fcbWiFtoong)fl Buddar 6110 PHofay

5 6202 MASTER P&GRM (14) (BF) [Tt» Vfinning Lina) Mss V tMmra 7 11 0_Jf WSamtoo

6 84054 RICHES DELIGHT (55) (GH±bad)G fitted 611 0 JTtart

7 ROSI WJS (Dwght Lfctfora) F?Afaer5 fl 0 R Johnson

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BETT1IG: 48 Master PBgita. 11-2 Johnston's Ail, 81 Hardy, 81 Kmfa Oats, 181 Aadacte,

25-1 Rude's Defigte, Rosnit, 33-1 dim

1998 RodCiHiB7noDBndgwd(r9-4jrtat(QMEGart}fa(ari

FORM GUIDE

Hardly: Looked open to enprevement when besting Bare Sovmdyi 'ft length (pair
27 lengths dear) on his Whcanton hurdas debut (2m) but stiff concedig w rt flht to
a stranger lieU here.

Audactor. 25000 gns aon of Skong Gala who oortanned Kempton debut prates whan
9tfi of 25 to Aleandra Banqua in the Cheltarham Festival tamper lest March. Looks
a i»y interesting recruit

Jacdar Be My Mdive gddng. Some prates fa burm**

Johnston’s Art Lingfiald tamper wrner with fash point-to-point experience. States
nowees usually progress with experience

Master PBflrfar Ptacad to Strang nowcea at Oiepatow, Sandown and Ho wbury last
term tar tay Bddhg and 141 10 bast whan beaten 10 lengths by Ftoxrtnem Prafle at
Vtetherby (2m4f non soft) on fast rai far new yanl W1 be herd to beat
Richie's Deflghb (mpnared effort when 6 lengths 4th of 12 to ZabreB at Fotestane
(2mil now hew. heavy) tad sd plenty to find

Roataus; Camden Tbwn gafcfrig, haff-farothar to 2 wfanfag tudera From a yard to
farm and worth a check n tea betting

Tom Lomax: Looks (he part ter jumping, although fttto djyi of abBty h two btnpsr
runs tor Bob Buckler test tenn Fra outng far new yard

Gentle Breeze: Ltyilly raced sort and Kttte promise so far. OK 14 months before taled
off betted Homme De For «er C&D tea month

Oten dronadc Fenner acting pteter. WO-I and taled off fram Sh when tthoM* to

Salamah at Taunton e&nil non good » soft) blowing long tsy-oH

Kenya Oats: Lived UP fa tamper promise when, Crashed wei beaten 5 lengtha by

Homme De Per aver C&D test month. 9 kxM improve

VERDICT Few novices can boast the credentials of MASTER PILGRIM, who has

been unfomrete to nw into a series of smart performers, with Pnwtoan t RqfBa the

latest at Wsttarby. He wodd be vidnorabto to a test farther to a sknvfy-njn race over

tins trfa, but tha presence of Mehta's Defight ahadd ensure a sound pace aid ha

should have the measure of Hardfy and Kerry's Oats.

looni SIDLE SHAM HANDICAP CHASE (CLASS F) £4,000
added 2m 2f Penalty Value £2,835

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BETTINQ: 11-4 In The Blood, 70 Mr Jervis, 81 tCytaTs Revenge, 81 FBou (hi Bote, 81 Not In My
Unt, 181 Jason's Boy; 181 lUcy, Cheeks, 181 Wtxoe Wondec 281 othera
S98 1 Dear Do n it 4 U A HtzgeraU 81 (N Hendenoi) Tl ran

FORM GUIDE

Net My Una: Ex -hunter Impressive winner of 4-rtnner handicap at Ibwester a year
ago tram 3tj tame but jumped body when pitead up cxi reappearanoe
In Tha Blood; Looked ratid when 3rd to Listen Timmy on Ns chase debut test term
and confirmed pramfsa with a dbtencewn over Jaaonfc Boy (now 26t> better) at Ex-
«er I2m2f heap, heavy) Shodd be a msfor player from 7to higher
Mr Jervis: J^t lasted home from La Brl ga MiB over CAP last mo n th after fair effarte
a FPScestone and Wincantoa Shodd be adtBd by bettor going now buthas not been
M off StfiBy wfifi Tte rise since tad handicap outeig

Maey; Has not Ked up lo the prtxnise ot taa r o^p e era noe Stit to Kadou Nav t ix a i a
a Uttnetor and was bade over taxdes last tana Otificdt to fancy
Chsaha: Southern! and Market Rasen double scorer In May V M B l b aa ed at hla best
but Nile to enthuse about in recent efforts

ttybot Revenge: Jumpad waiter a wmteg chasing debut win over Ctappowa ow
C&D on frst ran tor 16 montiia Rxm nrt woriong out, but open to kiaxovement
Hlou Do Bote: Hard puBar who showed a tttte OSty h no** tudas bolh here end
fa Italy Sure to have been we» s d woted, but t env e i ame nt a worry
Jason's Boy: nsap p o to Ung customer who was beaten only 'h tength by R^nuff
from 46 tegher at Hereford pmst gotxl to soft) fa Deo but has meaty nn moderate*
sfaca Offficsjft to fancy atthou^i weighted to go dose
Brown Sauce: Lightiy raced recent seasons and only pMIfeig dess now
Wixofi Wonder: Best reovit aftort whan beaten 3* tengtha by Nortti Bannister in Ex-
eter 2mH adler (good) UWe obvious chance fiom 8to out of handcap
MUkona: Only occasional firsstwrand Me abity twooeesons ago No ebvtaus chance
Irom 8b out of tha handcap

VERDICT: The ta refc a pper may again have interestteatad tha easy Exeter m*v
ner IN THE BLOOD, whose trainer has an Bcefent couse record He S irAdy to
be short of fitness despte a long lay-off Kybo'sBwnge app e tite as a pOBStotetn-
prmer, and # may be unwise to leave out Mr Jento, whose GOfMmti dXuld how
been boosted by h» latest dear reund

jo cnl PAGHAM SELLING HANDICAP HURDLE (CLASS G)
£2,500 added 2m 6f 110yds Penalty Value £2,110

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6 105 COUMALL (32) (Mrs Yvonne Alsopj A Hcbbs 8 1) 7 WMantoo

7 604060 S0V5S0N(57) (JFPanwrt) JftnwtSDS Creech (7)

BY RICHARD EDMONDSON
at Leopardatown

ton Mill and See More Busi-
ness, both of whom have beat-
en David Nicholson's horse by
further (his tenn. “W&stfll have
a race,” the Duke said.

Florida Pfeari is a ca ptivatin g
horse. He walked so slowly in
the parade ring here yesterday,
a long, white baguette of a
blaze on his face, that you
feared he might seize up. If the
exterior was calm, however; it
betrayed his workings. The
gelding tested Richard Dun-
woody’s strength from flagfaH
“TOday he was too keen in
behind,” Willie Mullins, the win-
ning trainer; said. “We chase to
take our time early on and just
get his confidence back and, as
the race progre sse d you could
see the horse was wanting to go
and grabbing at the bit
“Richard was trying to pop,
bat once he let him go he flew
his fences and both rider and
horse were happier”

The plan was to follow Es-
cartefigue, and such was Dun-

Florida Pearl powers home at Leopardstown yesterday in the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup with Escartefigue in close pursuit

woody’s proximity -to the
Rrtfish challenger for much of
the race that Richard Johnson
may have been tempted to
apply for a restriction order.

The shape changed at the
entrance to the straight, when
Florida Pearl, as he had done
at Cheltenham, poached a con-
siderable lead Comparisons
with ArHe seemed about to be
invoked, but (hen the oniy sim-
ilarity was with the Prestbury
Park race. Escartefigue ate
into the leader’s lead on the
run-in and, by the line, was two

lengths in arrears, a fraction
more than at March's FtestivaL
“Escartefigue put 19 a heS

erf a fight and over the extra two
furlong at Cheltenham he’ll be

Nap: Dick Turpin
(Southwell 330)

NB: Another Chancer
(Fontwell 4.50)

coming into his own,” Muffins
added. “I don’t think you pull
away from Escartefigue too

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Pmr, 10*1 Prkteuood FuejJ*, 19-1 Sanrelga 20-1 otins

1998: Ftey Hvk 6 V 7 J Ryan 6-1 (KWingore) B m

FORM GUIDE

Mupnlor Coratatent fa tiw gratte wth 20 tangths 2nd to Hbvot Goto Damond over
C&D in Nov and stosequorrt easy mn fnam fitSa/ hare (2rn2f) Should not be terawy
If recent chaM outing fas not laft its mark

Dancing Poser ftw d»nce on Plunpon 3 lengths and to Bowles r Ore but

has fui badty last tern starts. POS6ft4y worth a saver back on tew ground
Dentiiln Bl e u : Worc e ster and Ludtoivwxtoarhstlienn. Career-bast aftort when beat-
en 2 tangths by Shi^Ay at Ffatestone (2m6f set heap heavy) laest 7to taghernow
but looks sure to be fa the shakfrup

Staply: Con fir med r j gat one and Twcestertebmpfarnivtah good 22 lengths 4th
to Otr grr to rtd g e aTfevrcaster (2m5fse< heap, soft) last weak. Cbsetyireightcd with
Dafattfi Bleu on Folaastone tom and rfxxJd ptey a mqar rote
lyto B faa i w i . A p peared to ehovr vaetiy t r yuren iq iit when beaten Th lengths by
Advance East a ftxnpun (an*f sal. soft). Vital treated on old hantacap mart:
CoMt Placed fiom iSto higher two seasons ago aid showed sisya of old abity m
reappearance nai ter new yard after tay-ett Do a ppoktixig bast, but one to note fa
the betting

Soeerwgn V t M ^Tted to go cfase an eartyeeason Newton A b bot a nd Wbreester farm
tor Mann MQjeridge but ahcaWig Ittte tor new yard

W ea pons Rea: R o va nl ed a Kite afaity tar Tom Tate fa -S96-97 bul wastetedotf on
arty etartfar new yart B months ago

Pridewood Fuj^e: Unt of abBty to 199607 and agvi when 10 fangtiis Bth of « to
Cobte at Ludtoepniselhcafx sofl) on reappearance. LAelyimprorec
Bayloid Prints: Moody veteran has nof shown much far some Bne
a Gee: OrettnBhuiter chaos Unfa s&itfabity over furies
VERDICT TYLD STEAMER a the obvious chocs s ihe wrtgftis on his impnwed
second to Advance East last week at PkaTfaton. where he raced with plenty ot jbsl
I f that prows a false dawn. Cofwefl cortd trtre advantage athoujp Dancing Ronr,
Damftei Bteu and Smpfy are abo wa it in g si the wngs

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I 3m 2f 110yds Penalty Value £3,656

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fikl ikfft 7-4 Jocks Cnm, 3-1 Htaafli Darby, 4-1 Staig Vtafan, S-1 FreodiyMWta,6-1 Gtertacn
FrtarxSy, 20-1 Bangor Enta. 2S-1 Bortta milniij 33-1 dhn
S9B: HfatartxnJ 7 11 S R Dtaxoody 1-3 far (M J fttots) 5 ran

FOraH GUIDE

Gwriaan RlereSy: Wbricad hard to wfci a moderate Windsor newtoe handcap baton
d ea ppointtng 35 lengths 4th to Rtot Leader at Huntingdon (3m). Wi do ml to give
weight el round

Bangorerte: Placed in Hah pofaMO-fXjfat, but cut Itlto Ice on British debut when
tafcd oft fa weak WSncenton norioe hurete. Little appeal on chase debut
Chwtergokfc No sign al abBty over hurSea and sftstanl 5di of 8 to Seres DeG^tt rt
Itwetor d (3mlL good to soft) on better ot two chase eftarte
Cool Weath e r Ltitteeign of abfltiy over taxrlesgfioes tor Ore Pophem lea sea-
eoa Getting tang in the tooth to make an tapresstori far new yard
Beoehy Malta: Ex-pofatoc JLanped was and stepped up on previous form when 17
tangths 3id to Radara at Plumptcn (3ml f nov; heavy). By no means out of it
Jecka Croee: &nart bng-rtstanee hurdtar tor Gffldon ffch an d s test seasoa Promb-
mg chase debut when beatar 'b length by Wbodands Beau at Tbwoester (3ml f now,
sofg in Nov, Cfaan to faprovemant, but needs to brush up tas ^xrpng
Mtnef la Derby: Yat to txtid on chase debut 2nd touch tycoon at Worcester (&j>*L
heavy) and ran poody behind Sootton Green at Heydock (3ra heap, soft) last lima
Stable novices uoudy a big force here and cannot be ruled out
Strang VtakxrWhrgng fash painter, looked ■ ussU prospect whan berten 12 lengths
by Sparking Cone on chase debut al tbwoester (an6t soft) » morths ago Long ab-
sence a rwrry and stable without a winner tor a month
Bonita Btafeeney: Uffle sign of abtty over hurdtes ortonoes
Mand Hantab Hah pofaMo-prtntwfanet ‘Wed off when pitied up on tfree debut
tor John Rtfch-Hayes at Windsor fa Nok Rrst run far new yard
Red River 100-1 chance when taled eft and piBad ip at toth fa the Cockartocfc
race at W fticanton Cm 5f heap, sett) last month No obvious chance

VERDICT Wtthadoudhvigkig over KknBalsy&taarn Itb OfflaAtoenihime over

Strong Vlaionti prospects after a fang lay-oh despite Ns obvious farm dakna. It may.
theretont pay to refy on JOCKS CROSS, whose ‘Sweater farm has not worked out
too batiy He Is sue m toe bean wel sc h o u ted In the Interim. VWi kftiefla Derby
apperertfy an a dowriwnd curve, the mate threat cortd be Roncfiy Matia whose
somd (wripng should keep him Si ihe fray.

10 cnl TOTE HURDLE (HANDICAP) (CLASS E) £10,000 JWfc

2m 2f 110yds Penalty Value £7,328

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14-1 Eteocteg FtiddR HM Itoo Wroom, Tkon Of lies, an Gostey Befl, Mstioa Mate. 33-1 dm
«6: Creed St) 3 TDaseontoe 7-1 (J Nerte) e ran

FORM GUIDE

Khg Of TMtivtifc Has shown a Bong tor this Trade winning twice ow C&D tits term,
most re c a My h Decanter sfth Mti d fc s e M wel twrtnd Beth rttor tt we re on sofaHw/y
graimdwxl Dean Gatiagher was on board

Red Bait Raised tote *ce Lu i »n * ig eatfcr p romise wtih a 2 length win ovg-Pre-

rrier Generation in a con^KtAve 5andcxMn ^n, good) novica handcap in December

Nontansfc Onetaesed to vateAfe harefcap hurls at Kempkxi two weeks sga but
pmksudy wi far tha flrtf tnw k* !hfw and fron Gb qlA of the ^anScspow

C&D on ihe soft, bsetng Dancng Ppddy (2fa better oft) by 7 tangths
Tissue Of Ues: LtoatU huder who limn ova 1 Bto trfa 1st season fair pie no en-
Ctamagsment on fist rui tar six mcxdhs whan vktuaty putod up bertnd Couhhard at

Wtewick Pm. heavy)

Dancfag Paddy: Bcetant chHsmflastler two seasons ago who has pturmtad to
the hancicq) wtth a series of poor tasting efforts; showed hs best tom for aorra
tine when second to Navdansfc here tsst month after a ttemp ti ng to rrato ^
Hachtov a BL Ban poorfy tofssHtote bWorato betefadoff last bsfito Ktog OTThtovea
n Decerrtw but usefii performer on the Rat frid is si with a chroce on strength of
two juvenia vtctonea here Iasi tenn.

Hal Hoo Vbosiic TWce a wires st Pkroptcn thte term but ran without emhustesn
there latest when 32 tangths behind Mtenuit twer an4t Beat tenn on sound suteoe

hanifily TT^g a fair mflfhim* Is

there a horse that would run
away from him? with Tfeetcm
Mill as well we stfll have a
horserace.

The trainer though does not
anticipate a stamina deficiency
being exposed in the Cotswolds.
“We were thinking between run-
ning him in the four-mile chase

and the bum p er at. (‘Ihe tomham
the first year so Fve no worries
on that ground.” he said.

Dunwoody returned to the
twisting metal roses climbing
the winners’ post with his nose

bloodied. Right up to the off he
had received physiotherapy an
a chromcneck injury.

“We had to gallop from the
last because Escartefigue
d idn’t stop,” the rider reported.
“He had to get the trip well and
rm totally positive about him
getting the trip.

“He cBdn't over-exert himself
from haMP way qp the run-in, but
I felt if Escartefigue had come
to me he’d have found a little bit
more. I was worried he might
have a hart) race today and it

might take the edge off hm, but

KrabtoonBc Having a good senca he tooted unsuted by a vary dow safy pace
when stoyaig-on second » Kinrt Cross af Wtocanton {in. soft) lax month
Storaactou^iendcsrBstemlastyearbuthasyettofindtastonnttastennmaare*
carttyfiftShng 40 tangths brtxnfl D asrtn j Dofar in a Windsor (tonSL good) hardeap
hurdle Back n November Wen here rwee test season latest from 4b tagher
Rash HaftecBorr HjnSe and tasnpsr tarffl si treiarto but has actaaved Ittio to date
ter new stable Behnd when unseatrg 5 cuts Taunton (2m3t good to soft) lart week

H a tt o n UadK Haretap debut ter pre w a sig nowce who repaiscly tfwkod dump
the race when 23 lengths thrd to Uoonshsre Bay S Fotestane GmU good to srtit)
m November Also needs to s^scse te >anping

Granby Salt Mssed tas: season wahtegtioubte but showed some dd spartte ratsta
a poor nevee handc a p H Herefcrd k Dacembe r Finished 13 lwigrhs third Of V r
cendsarel s fanan Cmat. sesft) tasr time after boot jxrpv^. Itim rumng

Fabukws Mtottc Uodest master, ever furies two seasons ago who gave kttie en-
coiatigtimert tor new ecmac i ion s when tatedaff at K re ngd ai atct softest month
VERDICT: Lac9« of ret early pace fid net sud KrabtoonBc oi tas test nn but with
Gmby Boti Biefy to mow the running hs should rw encounter ma probtem today
He may however, beat the gfa cf Ste hau l capp ar. havsig risen i2k> fa the vrephts
snee w irrmg X. UIFocanton oi De cemb er. Ttas may also apply to the mpuving Rod
Guard, rased iQbsnoehsan Shram has won * tf* track and has an acetent
tf rance if recspdnng last seasars fcnr. and the veterans Nordansk and Dandng
Paddy are batii fa vmO) a shout on ther race dere test month. MACMAVELJJ won wee
nines here last season and has dmpp a d 3t> fa the w e^ti s-swee a rtMppe s np iq ef-
kxl mbtnicrs tag tfate The bcokfagafTbrnr McCoy s ug gests a bett er rtx i w ng is «-
pected today.

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added 3m 2f 110yds Penally Value £2^81

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Smrmb GoW. 14-1 Anotiwr CtKacK Lo-Ffyfflg Mtefie, 1M RraHng Sto MM Ottwrx
■0X Luv^Wter* B 11 fa A P IteCoy 08 jt far (M P^e) * rm

FORM GUIDE

Rattles Rooster Looked a promisng fiw^g recrut when wnrwig nowce hare in
November, haa jumped poorly sfaca fadtefing when 20 lengths behind Jemaro at Lud-
low ^rvd, good) an his han d cap debut back fa Oeoerriber. Tates a step upntrp
HI Hedtey: Fdrtmate to wr a Huntingdon nowce chase test month whan left dear at
the test after a pie-up fa front of hm Med up on only other chastog effort
M o orla nd Highflyer: Responded wel to positna ride taking a Ludow (3m. good to
soft) handc ap chase test month Sface raised 5b

Super MefcUcely to need the fin as not been out snee firxdwig 48 lengths 6#»t»

hind Sophie May at a lAfaroasterhsndk ap chase Cm7teofb fa November -BS7
Lo-Rytog fiEssflc Gewe Site cause tor oncoreagement on his seasonal debut taiad
off when pJngup at the 13th fa a race won by Quiet Momerte et Utkneter (3m, soft)
Parade Racer Ha* shown gttrmers of abBty h four rttompts novice chasing most
recently when 3rd, 38 lengths behnd Rot Leader carer C&D teat mcnth
Black Spring: Looted hartty treated an handcap debut over hurtles when teled-
off behind StorrrtM Stag here C2mfif) fast month Pel tn two previous chases
Holy Stinff Has jwnped slowly and baked unertihusiastic of late Inctucfing when w-
Spring at tha 8th fa race won by Mystic Ista at Fbfcaatone (3m2t soft) last mortih
Rambling Sam: Haateted to compieta on bstftxratienrf)3,faclucSng testtfaiewhen
taiedoff before tattng at the third last fa a nwiee handteap over C&D
Swansea GoW: Winner of fao pofat-to-ports who has tooted n need of both her
outings tits term, most recenfly when taled-att 4th behfad l^bob RevengB r a maid-
en here (2m3t soft) test month. May do better.

Little Rowley: Won a bite race two seasons ago but was trtted off when pitied up
in a hirdfe at Hrthgdon (2m4t soft) on he first outfag sface
MH Gokfc Has shown kttte over huidtes or fences. Ffatehed tated-off behfad Legal
Rght at Ludbw (2m 4( good to soft) test month

Another Ch e ncerr Has been placedfa maiden taxrtes but shown Me etaa Bkjrtdered
and inserted on chasng debut behfad Hof Leader (Parade Racer ahead fa thrd)
VERDICT: A poor qufty earnest where tew of the nmere have shown much tal-
ent tar tfaewig. A* the bottom end of the handcap Seramese GoW shortd come on
tor her nn here test month 8ttd te erarlh watohfag. M the top. Reffies Rooster may
have enou£b dess « give weight el round to poor opposnon. and has won at this
track. He is however, a suspect Jiraper MOORLAND HIGHFLYER is again ptoted by
Vtenen Marekn who gave hfai a grert ride at Ludow last month, and he won wel enoucpi
to s u ggest he can drty a Sb weight roe today

| te"5h l BOARD STANDARD NATIONAL HUNT FLAT RACE
(H) n,750 added 2m 2f 110yds Penalty Value £1,452

1 3t • ABAUfHIO (FTQ (31) M 8 Rxang) P ttabw 5 11 C Ur CR Werner (7)

2 14 GUIMCMHOMG pH) (BF) (Ms J lee) □ GxnOotioB 11 fa .Ehrobato

3 8 DEARDGALDH(JAGMeaden)fi&rtterBtt5. ^ Otr8rttanf7)

4 04 FWUNO(F^(a)PLDiitortJDirtopeii5 J*rHDurtcp(7)

5 0 (XHTlBIANGHAfUS^lRAndason Green) PVtttber 5115 Jlbard

6 0 JUST THE BUSSES (B) (PABi^ MkAU NswtovSnthS Tl 5 JtrPBuB

7 THE PUFFBI MAN [Coin From) N Hendareai 6 11 5 N P llufaaBend (7)

8 BETHW (Robn Used teefag) RRoeeSH 0 AGarrfty (7)

8 S BtMNT HOtCT (81) (Jani Parwed ei ) H Dtovn 5 11 0 JCAfepuniO)

fa CONC5TT PIAM5T (Ite J P Segal) PWrkeorffi4 faB OMdtiwBQ)

H . LARRT(RTbk|R1ta1(4 faB MrPItat

2 PaBROKE SOUARE (Lad Doncusymortrt M Rps 4 fa 0 FKenfey(7)

B PHNCEDUNDre(FRJ(BB»iEsttslJNBvie4aB Mr H Forristal p)

14 sr MBUON WOOO (St MMrxi Edtetl U Ftps 4 SB GSunteB)

— T4 ciocfwtf •

BETTBtG: 74 S IMtaa Vtaod, *-1 Pembroke Stpra*. M AbMvfao, 5-1 The Puffin Men. M Qun-
nerWoag, 9-1 HoOno, tS-1 Gerthnwi Orate* 14-1 Bom Haney, is-1 84tMa. 25-1 othera
B9B: Pfafessor God 5 It 4 R TTxmtin 3-1 ter (Mrs D taWe ran

FORM GUIDE

AbehrawgPr a i fafag tWnl in dmtoynin bumper at liirtow on debut fttioweduBvntii
easy win over Brockton Glen al "fewc ester Pm heavy) teal month
Guaeatloog: Ran out at steam Ltothc straight when 15 lengths Earth r a Towcss-
tsr (&u soft] tarrpar Previourty won a smtor contest a N o w t o n Abbot
Dear Deet Showed a ttite promise on Ks drtwt when weatenng after haU-way to be
E lengths fitii to fto >bu Know at Tajraon (2m it firm) bsk n October
Hottno: Has shown me ii twoulmgs to dai& most recertiy staying an through beat-
en hmas to SniEh2S lengths fountiowrC&O test month

Gentlemen Chart** Moderate debut fmahfag 4» tengtos nih brtwrd Oueons Har-
boira'fawesterpn.aofq n Docember. Looks held by Gunmrblong on that ran
Jurt The Burtnosa: Wd held in debut when a nmr nsarar Bth, beaten 49 tengths
by No Forscss a Fbkestons (anil MH ta race), back in December
The Puffin Mate ftosrtier getting. hrtMnther to the utehJ mxi-kivng. aayfag chas-
erRareons Green

Batlrt g Hflrt xi rnare ha dsbter to wfanfag cha» Mankind
ftkirtHonay^Promteig (taut BX Ludow (2m. good to arti). showing spaed without
ewrtmra^TOto Grosh S lengths 5th d U behfad Sandy Duff n a deooit bumper
Contert Piantat ffakaposhi King gettig. fii bnsher to a moderate nuttier
terry B am Bteteneygafcttig. half brother to a once-raced hunter
Pombroto Square: ‘fety con out of a mam who was a mddoifistarxta wknot
Prince DuideK Eoossrts gakting out of an irraced rrrae
SI Mainon Woo* ktoan golfing out Of si irxaced mare

VERDICT: ABAUflNO took an edmttetfy incompetitve bwnpra wttfi ease, red he is
metertoM adactian desptie saddtog a penally krtira wn Mann Ptoe^ two irraced
<tipresrtWte9 nua be respected as shortti the webetatad The Puftta Mat. Burnt Honey
enorad prortxse on her (taut and is wonh a sectfad took.

we certainly haven't bottomed

him

“He rates with the very best
I've ridden. Across the board
he’s very strong: the jumping,
the cruising speed, turn of foot
and attitude”

That means that Escarte-
figue can be no yak either. His
spotted and striped colours will
again be chasing the similar
silks of Florida Peari up the
Prestbury Park indine and only

then will we know the effect of
the foil championship yardage.
“He was staying on really weU,”

Cheltenham Gold Cup

Potato Uxter 0-1 m P-1

SraMcraBu tan— 20-1 2B-1 2M _»1.

Saw Bra 2M 20-1 20-1 2P-1

S-1 tt-1 20-1 M-1

HrataJ— 25- 1 33-1 8 3-1 33-1

StertrP QtatoB 3H 33-1 25-1 St

CdCfiMyAqratrfaoatKpiacBB 1,23
3m a tfo/d oaMm ra *tei*

SANDOWN

Gong: Good (Good to Soft in places)
1.25: 1. ZAPATEADO (C Llewelyn) 8-1: 2.
Mothers Help faO-30; 3. Tommy Corson
11-aBraa SB lav Rhra- Beal (4th). A4 (N
Traston-Dawes) ■Rue: £790, C20Q £I3Q
£170 DF. C184Q CSF £3105 1S5: 1.
EDRSXM BLEU (A P McCoy! 9-4 to.-, 2.
Msndys M s ntlu o n-4: 3. Anabranch 5-2.
4 raa a 1 (Mss H Krt^fa Ibto: £2£Q DF:
£360 CSF: £794

2J90: 1. DOOR TO DOOR (G Brataey) 7-2
flttr.Z Russel Rood 92 3. EWgrl 50-1
13 rm 7-2 (t lav Ma£c Cto* (4th). 4 a (S
Sheraood). %tK &UU 0701 C23Q £8SP OF-
£Hia CSF- £1788.

3J& 1. HOH EXPRESS (j Osborne) n-4 fiw;
2. No Fta(raat3-1 : a Bate Aranuo D-i 9 ran.
3k, 22 (P VSfebbal «Mcfi330;£Ma CDQ £20
DF:£B2Q CSF: CfaflQ ffirKurtte
335: 1. CUEVBRRBAARK (T J Mirpfay) 5-1.
2. Nsfathen Led tM; 3. tang UicHsr 7-2.
6 ran. 84 tw TbnJuff Express (4th). a S (J
Old). TbtK £620. £2 30 £Z8Q OF: £2730
CSF: E47S2

4.10 1.TCAATRAMD Grta^ra) 8-1 : 2. Just
ffip 14-1: a Mrtody MBkf e-2 IS ran. 2-1
tev Moondgua. 37. 7. |C Egartefa). TMk
£1000: £300 £250 £350 DF: £5410 CSF.
£11136. Tricast £82421 Infects: £7Q8H
440: 1. MffiMGHT LEGEND (R Johnson)
64 far. 2 Ntestar BoveM %4: a Juyusb
7-2 5 nn. Sbbd. 6 (D Mtaktoon) Tbte: £240;
£150 £130 DF: £290 CSF: E50&

Jackpot Not won;S2»0«35 canted tarwrad
to today

Ptacopot £29920 Quudpob £5550
Pteos K £ 72506 Place 5: £32550

UTTOXETER

Going: Soft

1246- 1. SHORE RARTY g Gtadsian) 3-1 ;
a Scotton Green 9-i; a Antont Sooiti 20-T
9 rm 7-2 fev Anrto Buctera 2 dst (N
TwotonOaMesL Tbte £2180; £370 £200
£43Q DF: £4470 CSF: £19300 THeasfc
£392184

1.15:1. KATES CHARM (RWUgaO 92 fan
2 BxtiBent Equinams 5-1; a Gatent Moss
10-111 ran. IL’K IR Atom Totae ES80: £190
£200 &OQ DF: £020 CSF: MM 7rt=ast
•Cfa823 Mt Abac Horn.

1A& 1. Hill OF PRAISE <J A IfcCanhy)
tt- 1 : a FkMtog The Facts ii -4 fav: a For-
ta Ivory 5-1 9 rm 2 3 (O Sharwoodllbre:
EkMO; £230 £170 £18Q DF: £1440 CSF

EsaanMcastcws,

220: 1. TR6MALLT (T Jerks) 94 lav; 2
Scra^C>ora52,aR«*andBr9-i Bran.

RICKS RALACE (3 Ttaani) 3.,;
iLmyof Cortmenon n-4 lav; a Stew-

arts Pride 11-2 9rm 2 17. (P Ndiota 'tan:

£390 £lBQ £12Q £U0 DF: E82DCST; Cingr
W: Roaey Boy

S J^tuasmine <n Gre«») 7-2 4
tori 2 . Hurrt Flyer 72 It fav; a teas Pan!

WBaraaiTbtec-co:
0F: 15170 ^ 5:16371 W;

?- S5: t- RICARDO (D Loohy) 10-1. 2 ,
g ™f-i;aattoAlto y ran 74
a{MrsJP *-

mtaiL Tsta tOBO. E2 «L £200, rai nr-
Etta CSF: £4292 NRs: Motet.

gaospac oaag Ouadpot g45o

Pfaca B: £HM82 Piaco 5: Pitg

WETHERBY

Gomg: Good (Good to Softn tines)

on caRSa*" 1 ^ "=:

nSl'J!" 1 fair. 2.

^ S'*** B-l
SL® 1 - ! F Beamcfaft Tbrer £210-
CUO £140 Eltl OF- £150 CSF- C2£3. 1

2^JI. "n« BREWMASTER (C F Swan)
nlna^i^ SW’t!?!* 7 * 3- Bpo!

W: E1SQ CUO OF- £380 CSF- C«^ :

9 1 irnan irau ... ‘

1-KONVEKTA KING (S Duaonaa-
2. Cumbrian Ortfaw.

Caroline Nonrir

Nicholson said. “People wen
talking about blinkers, foa l
don’t think the horse deserves
them- He’s run his heart ouL
“Florida Peari is stiff the'
one we’re frightened o£ Fbrme
he’s still the best horse/ Bat ;
you've got him as favourite fat"
the Gold Cup and us at 18-1.1 •••
know which one I'd back.”

Hennessy Cognac Goto Cop
3.40: 1. FLORIDA PEARL (R DtaWQOd jP
&-B ljr. 2. Eacartarigus 100-30; a
ton Boy 33 » 7 ran. 2 (ksl (W tetonSHbir :
wfa £130 : dLkos £i AT £190 Rtiwa Fore-
cast: £200- CSF C241

Fontwell 3.50 *

C..H.L _s T

Knbkxxto $1 JW 72 31_74

redOted. ,_iM.. 9d . 4-i. w.ir
IQngOr.mm W.. 8J . JM

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Stan :-l. .152. 7-1 71 7-t

Itorttovte _ >1_W >i_%i

DracfagPKMy t*-i ..it i m-i.C : i_»i
tel Hoo towora u-i n r ret S-t £-1
TtaHs.QruH._rei. >t .rei.iM. jE-i.

Oanby M *1 _W . .»!. S-1 V

MteXiMstt. _»1. U-1I0-1 S-t o-r
Ratal Rtatectos 33-1 3-t 33-1 33-1 A-1

M^ta.w ._*»_»« »T «b!

taflwRi a caw ffn «**. tarns ». ?. .1
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400: 1. MR BRANIGAN (Mr B fttiock) G-ft •
a saw Sick SI. 1 HUtontonm 201 «
ran. 64 fav Last Option 3A 3 (l*s C BatoyV
■fair £239. CUQ £230 OF- E42Q CSF. £835
435: 1. HEAD FOR THE HOJLSfRSlfapW
5-1 tav; 2 MsterGrah3m8-1;a Sknpkt'lbnie
33-1 17 rm 2 hd |T> Bsunonfl Ibte: BSR)
£180 £380 £950 DF. £2731 CSF: £422B
PtacspSt £2730 Quadpot £2070
Ptoea fc £977 Place a- C528

LlNGFt ELD
Gong Standxd

1- lft 1- KATIES CRACKER (F too# 7*

2 Modsal Ho(M V-1 ; a Artie CDutor 2-1 tol .
10im ft (M Qrfa) tar £430 £« £589

£140 DF £1790 CSF; E3&91 Tixast EBaOSi
Wtt 1. MAGfC ARROW (6 Carts) 6-1; z'
RobeBhs 25-1: a Nadteha 2-1 )tbic12im2- :
t jt far Buff Stream jr.- a p Ncsectti tar
ISDftE2fiQE33Qn2QDF CS02£XlCSF:£t®83
aiStl.MUHANDtStCardy Monte) Q2tec'-' '
2 Sir WWIar 9-1; a Keepsake 9-1 Bran.

«l V- (GLMoore) Tata: £240; £130 Etti.r.
£190 DF: £250 CSF: £501 Tncoat £2t38

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ZASi 1. SHABAASH (J Oukn) 94; 2. RrtF \
Itonua 5^ tar; a Mteprint 9-1 8 rm ^ l '

(P htowtingl Tote: £aft Ct4Q £in £280 DR
£390 CSF: £550

a2tt 1. HORMUZ (J Farrtngj 7-5 Z Art- ‘
team 25-1: a An Executive Do 7-1 8 ran.

2- 1 far Lfacofa Dean Sht-hcL 9 (M Jahnsui . .
tar £520. £170 £480 £310 DF. £20508
CSF: £7Sfi6 Tixast £53683 After o arewanH ; •
raivy. ite fetlwo pbdngs were ravened *
asa 1. WEiyiLLE (A Cterw 14-1: 2 Tbp- '
ton 9-2 a Vasari w-i 8 rm S2 )t tew Hyd* ;
PBrk. Surer Monaieh a 3‘t. £P Mskfa) tar • '
£1300, £350 £170 £A90 £3^ £2170 CSR
C7B37. Tncast £8S44a

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2AdUtat92-.aMunnoan4.ilBt 11 net. .
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£2*1 DF: £2130 CSF: E2784 taaet EW5R -
FftcepattOeaO QMdpate £1520 jk

Ptace & £8183 Place 5: £4649 B

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StondbnJ

7.00: 1. PREMIER DANCE (N Caton) 1t-4 r
ta; 2 Baprtonf M : a Itoo On Tbs Brifc*

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cast £0081 .

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2 Ronquteta D*Or WOO 3. CaerTWtfa ■
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£2334 Tncaat. C5744 ffl: B*y Box Rntati 4 v
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Kumble

takes his
place in

history

By matching Jim Laker's feat, India’s
genius has made an indelible impression
on Test cricket. By David Llewellyn

THE NICKNAME “Apple Crum-
ble” conjures up an image of a
slightly chaotic, disorganised
|| person, a roly-poly figure of a
A Qian, a trifle on the portly side.
’ But it sits sloppily on the shoul-
ders of someone who could
claim to be, if oot the best leg
spinner in the world, then
almost certainly the nod best
And Rumble’s historic per-
formance in New Delhi yester-
day taking all 10 wickets for 74
runs in Pakistan’s second in-

ANNALS OF ANIL

1970: Bom Bangalore, on 1 7 Oct.
1990: Makes Test debut for India,
against England at Old Trafford.

1 991 -92: An unbeaten 1 54 for Kar-
nataka against Kerala at Bijapur con-
firms his batting prowess.
1993-94: Takes 7-59 for India
against Sri Lanka at Lucknow.
1995: Joins Northamptonshire and
tops 100 wickets in the Champi-
onship. with an average of 20.40.
1996: Ever-present for India In the
1996 World Cup and Is not out in
Calcutta semi-final debacle when a
collapse of seven wickets for 22 runs
results in victory for Sri Lanka.
1999: Becomes only the second
man in Test history - after England's
Jim Laker- to take 10 wickets in an
linings, against Pakistan at Delhi.
Wimble's 10-74 is second only to
Laker's 10-53.

nings was oily the second time
the feat has been achieved in
Tfest cricket the first being by
England's Jim T-hVpt (an off
spinner) at Old Itafibrd, Man-
chester; in 1956. It should t ice
Imfe's leg spinner a step benmu
Australia’s Shane Tfarne in the
world rankings, but help him to
shade it over Pakistan’s tricky
wrist spinner Mushtaq Ahmed,
followed by another Australian,
Stuart MacGilL

His match haul of 14 for 149

surpassed his previous Tfest
best, a more modest 11 for 128
against Sri Lanka in Lucknow in
January 1994, the only other
time he has ever tafcp.n iq or
more wickets in a Test Bis best
return in first-class cricket re-
mains 16 for 99 (8 for 58 and 8 for
41) for Karnataka against Ker-
ala in the 1994-95 Indian season.

But while his contempo-
raries are for the most part
orthodox leggies, employing a
varied armoury against unwary
batsmen, Kimble is anything
but orthodox. Fbr a start he is
a qualified engineer, who has
spent his spare time mending
watches and more recently,
designing a computer game
on cricket when he is not play-
ing for his dub.

Rnmhle is an np right man fm
every sense of the word) stand-
ing as he does at 6ft l'Ain and
befog able, therefore, to deliver
the ball from a good height and,
on hard wickets, to generate
sometimes unplayable bounce.

He has a long delivery stride,
possibly a hangover from his
days as a medium pace bowler
and has a wickedly quick ball,
once timed at around 60mph in
a one-day international. And
while the orthodox members of
lids select fraternity wfll employ
the leg break as their stock ball,
Kumble has always reckoned
that his old reliable is the flip-
per; with the odd googjy and leg
spinner thrown in.

Kumble does not get much
u rip’* on the balk it will not turn
square as it does for TCkme and
Mushtaq, because Kumble is
stnimoreofafinge-spinnecbut
the advantage he has is
phenomenal accuracy. Few
bowlers can drop foe ball on the

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Anil Kumble celebrates taking all 10 Pakistan wickets in the second innings in New Delhi yesterday

same spot for hour after hour
as can Kumble. In that respect
he has much in common with
Lakeland perhaps accuracy is
the key to taking all 10. .

Both holders certainly ben-
efited from their team-mates.
When Laker was on his way to
all 10 (and 19 in the match) his
bowling partner; Tony Lock,
stifled an appeal from the other
end because he sensed history

in the making .

In New Delhi, India’s cap-
tain. Mohammad Azharnddin,
instructed pace bowler Javagal
Srinath to bowl wide deliveries
to ensure Kumble could equal
the record and surpass the

previous In dian Test best of.
9 for 69, set by another leg spin-
ner; Jasu Patel, against Aus-
tralia in 1959.

It was his Northamptonshire
colleagues who dubbed Enable
“Apple” when he spent a fruit-
ful year at Wantage Road in the
summer of 1995, standing in for
the West Indies fast bowler
Curtly Ambrose. By the start of
that season he had made 17
Test appearances, but was
something of an unknown to
cricket followers in this country.

His studious appearance
belied a tough competitor; who
can bat Hie spectacle-wearing
Kumble was set an extremely

Stiff challeng e by Allan Lamb,
the then ca ptain at Northamp-
tonshire -he was told he had to
take 100 Championship wickets
in tire season. Lamb would not
have done so had he not
believed Kumble capable erf the
feat and his perspicacity was re-
warded when Kimble finished
the summer on 105 wickets at an
im pre s siv ely mean 20.40, having
sent down more than 900 overs.

It was the first time a bowler

had rgpched thrpefi gnr pg store

Essex's Nefl Pbster and Surrey
fast bowler Waqar Younis had
reached their hundred wickets
in 1991. It left him ninth in the
first-class bowling averages and

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Only a couple of Itieee ahoiwd anything at al fa3t tbns out
but one ol thenv BtndngDmm.ia bettor at shorter tr^n and
tfw ofhaq Gaelic Btoa, la far from consMant Ether could mt
at thea best, as could Piirevnlue, but It coid be worth chanc-
ing MAYBE O'GRADY, who came good at this meeting last
year and ran Ns best race tNs season kastdme.

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BETTING: 53 Ibn Mwlnb. 7-2 Oakbwy, 4-1 Court Jokm, M Wntwn
Gsnsral, Jego, 10-1 Itthreic; 20-1 Saranada, 25-1 obea

FORM VERDICT

A a^rt &ttle affair, but MfTHRAlC can have excuses made
far hretffavviaBr a nd bwel worth ancthar chance fan Maafa.
ah wl benefit from the (frop ii dass but la net dts to fael
very enttuaestic about at the best of trees.

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BETTING: 84 House CapMn, lOOOO llafasr Nose. M Ifa A Baqain,
HI CaatWasm Court, 3S-1 11>a Other Man, 10M Odadl OnaaMt

FORM VERDICT

TW6 sap m ki trip ahold pcBsere no pretierea far DAHU0YA.
wtw has been ItiW an Biae ngly in BoreacuiiiaettlvB 61 averts
here tffa wkitK ScMSating Sowid ran ana o( her better races

toct tens and has ctains on that but flta WM , Dekela-
mary and The Barnafey Bane, who haw al won hm tftt

wnfccsn ae gpecaryconsisagntwbteFaym and EBfa Hope
seem better at Wolverhampton.

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FORM VERDICT

Although hems a dbappointaig fanurlfa last thw It may
be worth ghifag ancOw dtanoefa KWGCHIP BLTC who had
prevfau&iy bearer Rfng The Cfliaf and fw>« »» battartrf
the weWrts again Erupt and Kaaa Alhawa have daknson
iheh- rwi bflt*id Sharp Scotch B days ago rdifc Abtaal has
afaoto be refafacSBd off this maxlt

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ntedeo, Naro Tin* &1 Slwp BhM Boy

FORM VERDICT '

FORM VERDICT

HOUSE CAPTAIN was the best of this tae-ip ow hudes
and has shown more than enou^i on hit two chase starts
m suq^js: ho shexid cans oul on top, Master No« has at*-
ity but j^npad bady baidne, and CaatfatonMn Court n*y
give the setecdon most to do.

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MMaunr JCSt Ttuo Trader 9m 13b. Rebel Kng to 3b.

BETTING: 1V4Man Odd. 5-1 Wyeyani lady, 11-2 PWsmfas, 7-1 Rve
Rags, 5-1 GoUenTlmdarbe*, 8-1 9eanWto F^er.10-1 Jack FUh. 12-1
othea

FORM VERDICT

Not a particularly corrpeiittve aftek; and STRAFFAN GOLD
wl be hard to beaL Equaly atfacbve «2m and 2n>4L he has
been given a short break since a busy speB at the end at tat
year and Ns term bears ctaee hspeonn. Kamo Sabo and
Sraiddy Lad are a cor** ol longshore with eaefwrey appeaL

|o"nnl Orinoco handicap (class e)

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BErnNG:»l Sharp Scotdk 7^ G a tBe olwm Rate &2ftrttfalP,Ttop-
ieal Baach, 7-1 Sntaga Rad, 10-1 Chaaifal Soorn, 12-1 edwrs

Locomotion is I

erence a far the

m kfavove tar Ms debut nn, but ptef-
I C4D torm of JUST FOR YOU JANE-

FORM VERDICT

Sharp Scotch la h fine farm but K is pos*le tha this areal
fleU mBy him lew fa contrast, the frnnt-nirrtng GOV

HERSHAM FARK could gel things Ns own my 14) hunt h
a less compettBve hmticap then he has been used to,

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BETTWG: »« DU Tarpfa 74 Nag PrfaH. B-1 Copper MwU, 11-8 Mag-
ical Shot, in Derate Ryar, 12-1 Daona*s D01M, 14-1 ethare

FORM VERDICT

Magical Shat la not certafa p be sated by d* step beck
* up ndetance end is pe»ed over h two* of KING PRIAM,
who s Man to reveree fast montffa C&D pfadngs with Dick
Itepki, whom he meets on Sfa better tarns. Copper Shell
Is the obvious danget

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BETTWG: 1V10 Dan Da Mao. 74 FBs Dt Cnaaoru 7-1 Fryup BaMta,
1M Storm 25-1 Cfavertag, 50-1 ctbae

FORM VERDICT

DAN DE MAN ]unped well enough on Ms dose debut and
shorJd mate h* speed tea under touaybcontSdons FUsDe
Creeaon wi be no pushover as he galops and junps, but
the rest makB fettle appeal.

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BETnNtk MCtwvaOar Errant, 7-2 Cuchtenn. 6-t toa ton» nna*v B-1 &a
Cunofaghara. 10-1 Strang Spray, 12-1 O toM fa aMEh npw u B. 14-1 othars

FORM VERDICT

CUCHUUUNN made a promg l n g start over hurtles, though
litimstaly a faBBt, and the outcome may depend on whether
he has recovered from the oqjenence. He wouU have Itofched
fa front of ChevaBar Enrant had he stayed on he feet and
the term Is working out wet with the wmner and third suc-
cessful snea

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tpecttA, 8-1 BoU Aitatotsat, Rock Wand Una. 1M tot flnaie, 2M rth-
ere

FORM VERDICT

ewOOTY is not ml drawn, but it ax* wok to ha advan-
taga if she avoids the ancdpafcd early rush involving the 1«5
ol lea Age. Grand Chapmu and Abow Board and is pro-
duced late. Rtrakfaland Line may also benefit from the ex-
pected hot early pace, efciwfag he stamina » come hto play,
but Ewereiy b preferred.

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POtar School, 7-T WMdey Gtanga Boy, 8-1 Major's la* 10-1 now

FORM VERDICT

Sudest has reeaphsed hs form oM997 in conmlBlina hto ha^
trfck at VWvi^Brftpton, whle Paradise Navy has «wn twice
fcnodeybtowdM the wrtfar. But preterenea star FAB CRY. !
who has gone from strength to strength here arcs i4?ed n I
trfa and gen on wd whh todays amatour rate

CRICKET/21

Waugh the
best wager
for captain

Shane Warne may be considered
too big a gamble to lead Australia.
By Stephen Brenkley in Melbourne

helped Northamptonshire to
third in the table. He was also
the first to pass 100 wickets for
the county since another Indi-
an spiimec Bishen Bedi, in 1973.

A landmark in February is at
odds with Kimble's apparent
love affair with October. He
was bom in October 1970;
reached 100 Test wickets dur-
ing bis 2istlbst in October 1995
and joined the more exclusive
200-wicket dub in October 1998
while winning his 47th cap (for
the record, Wame readied this
landmark in his 34th Ttest). In
his 51 Ttest appearances to date
Kumb le has taken 234 wickets
at a most respectable 2728.

AN AUSTRALIAN government
survey revealed last week that
most of the population could not
name the country’s first Prime
Minis ten It could have been
much worse. They might have
been unaware of the identity of
their first Test captain.

Not knowing Edmund Bar-
ton became head of the Feder-
ation in 1901 was cause for
some momentary soul-search-
ing. If it was ever disclosed that
mass ignorance existed of Dare
Gregory's leadership in the in-
augural 45-run win against
England in 1877 it could bring
a nation to its knees.

The name of the 40th man to
hold the post will be announced
this week. He will lead Australia
on their tour of the West Indies
next month. It is all but certain
the anointed one will be either
Steve Waugh or Shane Wame.

The personalities of the two
candidates have been con-
stantly dissected and re-
assembled. Between them,
they have been conducting ex-
tremely polite but deliberate
election campaigns.

Waugh is the favourite as the
older man and senior player but
Warne has been doing himself
favours with his captaincj' of the
one-day side in the Carlton &
United triangular series. There
is no unanimous opinion on who
would be the better candidate
but everybody is agreed each
would bring different qualities.

It is more than a decade
since Waugh first entered the
Test arena and over that time
he has become the world's
leading Test batsman. As spec-
ulation about the captaincy has
increased, doubt has been ex-
pressed about his communica-
tion skills and motivational
powers. Vfcmgh has had success
as a leader He was made skip-
per Of the national one-day side
last year when the selectors
dropped Mark Taylon Under his

stewardship the remodelled
team have had tournament
wins in Australia, India and
Pakistan.

Waugh has rejected the sug-
gestion he has spent too long as
a Tbsl player dealing with his in-
dividual contribution. Waugh's
main strength as a batsman is
his doggedness. He is an im-
placable. rock- steady foe. he
never gives his iricket anay
easily and it can be assured that
he would lead by example.

There is no question he is a
deep Lhinkec He is also a rarity
among .players in being en-
grossed by cricket's history
and traditions. Waugh is 33 and
he would be the oldest captain
of Australia to be chosen since
Ian Johnson succeeded Lind-
say Hassett at 37 in 1954.

At 29, Warne may be con-
sidered a more appropriate
age. There is also no doubt that
he is blessed with a consider-
able cricketing brain. While he
has not been an especially suc-
cessful captain of Victoria he
has exhibited formidable qual-
ities in the one-day series. He
has flair, vision, is prepared to
take a gamble i literally).

Wame's life is also em-
broiled in controversy. It was
revealed a few weeks ago that
lie had received a cash gift from
an Indian bookmaker on Aus-
tralia's tour of Sri Lanka in 1995.
He was fined for this but Aus-
tralian Cricket Board decided
to keep the affair secreL More
important may be Warne's
form. He is still regaining fit-
ness after the operation which
kept him out of the game for
nine months.

The captain is not appointed
by the selectors. They name
their squad for the West Indies
tour today and the ACB com-
mittee vote on the captain on
Friday. Expect it to be Steve
Waugh- Expect the entire na-
tion to know.

Gilchrist inspires
Australian victory

THE RESULT may have been ir-
relevant but Australia and Sri
Lanka produced a thrilling
match in the Carlton & United
Series qualifying match in Mel-
bourne yesterday. After two
exceptionally dull games in
Sydney in the past week. Aus-
tralia defeated Sri Lanka by 43
runs in a thoroughly exciting af-
fair The home side's total of 310
was the highest one-day score
ever registered at the Mel-
bourne Cricket Ground, and
Adam Gilchrist set an Aus-
tralian one-day record individ-
ual total with his rapid-fire 154.

Even so, Sri Lanka set off in
pursuit seemingly undaunted
by the huge total, with Avishka
Gunawardena and Romesh
Kaluwitharana in withering
form. The left-handed
Gunawardena struck one of
his sixes over backward point
and made 75 from 66 balls.
When Kaluwitharana was out to
Shane Warne for 68, who went
for 19 in one over; the hard work
seemed to have been done.

Sri Lanka had been scoring
at eight an over but the innings
collapsed after the openers
were removed in quick succes-
sion. Shane Lee was the main
beneficiary, taking 5 for 33.

Australia 310-8
Sri Lanka 267
Australia vrin by 43 runs

Australia won toss

AUSTRALIA

1A C Gilchrist c Tillatarjcne b Vaas I M

M E Waugh b Muiolitlumn 13

B P Julian c Jayawjrdme

b Murahttwr jn 0

R J Ponong c /av,iwoaf«W 0 dr Sita 6 1
D 5 Lehmann c Ranatunga

b Samaraiveera 27

D R Mjrtyn c Kaiumrlurana

b Wlckramasinghe 15

M G Sevan nor oui 1 1

S lee ran out 5

■S K Wame c TillaKaratne b Vbas 5

M 5 hasprowlc: no: cut 2

Extras {bib. Aw, 2nb; :0

Ibtal [tor 8, 50 overs) .........310

Did not bat: G D McGrath

Fill: 1-92. 2-92. 1-213. 4-253. 5-236

6-291. 7-301. 6-307.

Bowline: Waas 10-7-68-2. IVickrjmjs-
Ingne 9-3-52- 1. Murahthjun J a-1-15-2.
Oe Silva 10-0-55-1. r.iijkaurw
1.2-0-11-0; Samardiwerr.i 9-0-60-:.
tay.mvoidene 7-0- A 5-0

SR) LANKA

A Gunawardenr b Lee 75

tR S haluwittuiana c f.Urtvn b Warne 6?
P A de Sihu c Waugh b Lee 1 1

DPMI Jayawardene run cut 27

‘A Ranarunga c Gilcnrru b Lee . 1
H P TillaKaratne c Ponnirg b Lee A2

M S Atapanu b Lehmann 12

WPUJC Uaas b McGrath . i-

T T Samaraweerj b Lee 3

G P Wickramasingne c Gilctnis:

b M:Grath ... m

M Muralirtiaran not out 1

Earns (2b. Zib. iw. *nbl 9

■total (47.1 oven] 267

Fell: 1-145. 2-1A7, 3-164. A-Ibb. 5-200
6-225. 7-248. B-255. 9-265.

Bowling: McGrath S- 0-46-2 Kasproi-.u.-;
8-0-45-0 Itefne 8-1-51-1 Julian 5-0-<<5-
0 Lee B. 1-0-33-5. Be van 3-0-15-0
Lehmann 7-0-2S- 1 .

Result: Australia won bv 43 runs
Umpires: D J Harper and T A Prue

Alleyne returns after
death of his father

MARK ALLEYNE, the Eng-
land ali-ro under; left the tour
of Australia yesterday after the
death at his father in a car
accident He immediately flew
home with his wife, Louise,
and will now travel to Barba-
dos where the accident
happened

England will not replace
Alfoyne, who has impressed in-
termittently on his Erst senior
tour without quite giving the
impression that he was wholly
comfortable on the interna-
tional stage. In a sad way his
departure may increase the de-
termination of his colleagues as
they prepare for the finals of
the Carlton & United one-day
series.

“The playing of cricket is
meaningless when set against
personal tragedy,” said the tour
managen David Graveney “But
once the shock has been ab-
sorbed by the players it will

BY STEPHEN BRENKLEY

prove to be a real focal point for
the team. It will work as an in-
spiration to tiie team to do it for
Mark.”

Alleyne’s father, Euclid. 56.
had returned to Barbados to
live in recent years. He was a
keen dub cricketer who was im-
mensely proud of his son’s
achievements after first
demonstrating his talent for
the game at Haringey Cricket
College in London.

Graveney said that Eng-
land expect to be able to pick
from a full squad of 15 for the
first final in Sydney on
Wednesday. The team physio-
therapist, Dean Conway, is
making optimistic noises
about the respective ham-
string injuries of Neil Fair-
brother and Darren Gough,
though no final dedsion wifi be
made until tomorrow.

f

22/RUGBY UNION

the independent

Monday 8 February 1999

V

Five Nations’ Championship: France prevail in test of nerve while Wales are stunned by flying Scots at Murrayfield

A monkey
becomes

King Kong

They ended up black and blue, but
the latest debacle against a victorious
France was different. By Tim Glover

The Irish forward Dion O’Cnmnegain is inches from teaching the ball down hot is held up by Richard Dourthe, of FVance, at Lansdowne Road on Saturday AlLsport

Heartbreak for Humphreys

THE GREATEST legal minds in
Christendom are divided on
the issue: was it the law of the
jungle that left Ireland’s
Grand Slam ambitions face
down in the Dublin mud on
Saturday, or the law of Mur-
phy? Both judicial philoso-
phies were very much in
evidence at Lansdowne Road
during the most gripping
drama staged at the grand old
stadium since the World Cup
quarter-final with Australia
eight years ago, but on bal-
ance, as the best judges like to
say, Murphy gets the nod.

Certainly David Humphreys
now subscribes to the theory
that if it can possibly gowrong,
it will Seven days previously, it
had taken the loveable little
Ulsterman a full 50 minutes to
fight his way to the dresang-
room after leading his province
to a famous European Cup vic-
tory over Coloraiers. This time,
a random drugs test prevented
him reaching the bar for the
best part of three hoars. Given
that Humphreys did not much
feel like socialising in the im-
mediate aftermath of a numb-
ing one-point defeat for which
he held himself largely respon-
sible, be would not have worried
had he taken three weeks to
produce the required sample for '
the men in white coats.

By Chris Hewett at Lansdowne Road

Ireland 9

, m Penalties: Humphreys 3

r

Half-time: 6-0

“You could say I’ve just
lived the cliche; a week is a
long time in rugby,” he smiled
sadly as visions of his final
fluffed penalty shot at the
French posts gatecrashed
their way into his mind's eye
for the zfilionth time. “Fd will-
ingly have traded the Euro-
pean Cup experience,
wonderful though it was, for
victory over the French. That
would have been for the whole
of Ireland, not just Ulster. Do
I blame myself? I had a kick to
win the match and missed it,
simple as that. The guys have
been very supportive but, yes,
I'm feeling it right now.”
Warren Gatland and Ids fel-
low selectors will be feeling it ■
too, for just at the moment,
Ireland possesses more pre-
cision kickers per head of pop-
ulation than it has priests.
Eric Elwood, Simon Mason
and flfiall Woods would all fea-
ture in a premier league of Eu-
ropean marksmen and while

FYance

■fry: Dourthe
Coovecskw: CasUdguMo
Penalty: Cutaigptde

Attendance: 49,000

Humphreys’ quicksilver bril-
liance as a running outside-
half- witness.his shredding of
the French midfield during
the first half on Saturday - and
Conor O’Shea's bravura con-
tribution at full-back more
than justified Gatland’s omis-
sion of the first two, the coach
would now find it difficult to
convince a single emerald soul
that he was right to ignore
Woods “David is a fine kicker,”
Gatland insisted, his flat New
Zealand timbre betraying no
obvious sign of the gut-
wrenching disappointment he
had just suffered. “He per-
formed the role superbly in
South Africa last summer,
landing seven from seven in
one game. It's not an issue, not
a concern.”

Really? That last injury-
time shot was undeniably a
brute, albeit a 22-metre brute;
well to the left of the sticks and
directly into the teeth of a
gusting wind, it would have

tested the nerve of a profes-
sional assassin and the faith of
a saint However, as
Humphreys glumly admitted,
his three first-half misses
were far less forgivable. Had
he succeeded with just one of
them, the French would have
found their hosts wickedly dif-
ficult to reel in.

They were that anyway,
the Tricolores felt compelled
to indulge in some serious
hanty-panky after the interval,
simply to get some purchase
on a match that seemed al-
most to be happening without
them. “One 10-minute spell
in the second half was inde-
scribable,” gasped Paul Wal-
lace, the Saracens prop whose
born -awkward approach to the
science of scrummaging had
proved for too much for Chris-
tian C alifan o to handle on his
return to big-time interna-
tional duty. “It was like noth-
ing I’d ever experienced;
kicks, gouges, punches, the lot
It was a matter of standing up
to them and that we did. Tm
proud to say"

Ironically, it was Wallace’s
own breach of the rules that
gave the wonderfully com-
pelling Thomas Castaign&de
the three points that really
mattered. Peter Marshall, the
Australian referee whose

inquiries into a positively
Tysonesque piece of violence
perpetrated on the prone fig-
ure of Keith Wood was hope-
lessly undermined by his
inability to distinguish be-
tween the gazelle- like Philippe
Beraat-SaUes and the ox-like
Philippe Benetton, trusted his
flawed eyesight sufficiently to
deliver an offside verdict
against the Irish tight-head as
he scragged Philippe Carbon-
neau at an 80th-minute rude.

“I didn’t think I was off,"
Wallace moaned. "And be-
sides, someone gave me a
bunch of fives for my trouble.
The penalty should have been
reversed, that’s for sure." Cas-
taign&de has always carried a
splinter of ice in his molten
Gallic veins, and there was
not the faintest possibility of a
miscue, especially as he had
spent the whole game playing
the cleverest of hands behind
a slovenly French pack.

Along with Thomas Lievre-
mont, a cunning wolf of a No
&, and the Insanely committed
Richard Dourthe, whose psy-
chotic aggression earned him
a scarcely credible wrestle-
over try near the Irish posts to
break open the game on 62
minutes, the Castres stand-off
was the pick of the off-colour
Tricolores. It was intimidating

indeed to watch the French
squeezing out a result against
an inspired Irish side with
only three players fully on
their mettle.Ttae Irish will be
back; Eric Miller, Jeremy
Davidson, Wallace and the el-
emental Wood were quite out-
standing on Saturday and they
will frighten the living day-
lights out of the powder-puff
Welsh forwards at Wembley in
12 days’ time. But when the big
prizes are on often it takes a
Castaign&de to strike gold.

“No, of course I did not think
of missing the last penally” he
said, chirpfly. *T train all week
to kick goals like that” So, too,
does David Humphreys. It’s a
cruel world.

RELAND: C O'Shea (London Irish): J
Bishop (London Irish). J BaO (Dungan-
non]. K HUggs (Bath). G Dempsey
ftoenure): D Hinophrrys (Dungannon) ,
C McGnfmress (St Mary's); P Ctobessy
(Young Munster), K Wood (Harlequins].
PVbSaoe (Saracens). Plate (Saracens,
cape), j Davidson (Castres), E Miller
fferenurel. V Costello (St Mary's). D
OTiilniiftn (Sale). Replacements: R
Henderson (Wasps) for Bell. 1 A; T Bren-
nan (St Mary’s) tar Costello. 52: J Ho-

Patrick (Dungannon) tor Qohessy. 6A.
FRANCE: E Mtamacfc (Toulouse); P
BcrafrGalKs (Blamrz). F Gomba (S cade
Frarnafe), R Docutbe (Scade Francis). T
Lombard (Stade Francis); T C**-
taignMe (Castres). P Carbon seau
(Brtve); c CaQfaoo (Toulouse). R Ibanez

(Brtve); CCaltfaao
(Perpignan. capO.P
O BnsiM (Bigte-
Dbulousel, P Beam

(Toulouse).

. FPekKB

(Tbulousel. P Benetton (Agen). TLHnf*-
mont (Perpignan). O Wlagne (Brtvei . Bn-
placements: S Maixonnet (Stade
rranfate) tar Callfano, h-c T Oeda (Raul
for Pelous, 7ft A Gomes (Sode Fransats)
tor Lombard. 81 .

Ma te . P Marshall (Australia).

THE eve was cast literally.
Freshly painted advertise-
ments on the playing surface
left the players daubed in blue,
French blue at that Even the

ball changed colour. All in all it
looked like St Irinians on a bad
ink day.

Howeves this latest debacle
against the French was differ-
ent Warren Gatland has
developed a most formidable
pack of Ireland forwards who
did not appear to miss the in-
jured Malcolm O'Kelly in the

second row or Andy Whrd in the

back row. The breakaway unit
of Eric Millet Victor Costello
and Dion O’Cuinneagain were
positively dynamic against
France, as was Keith Wbod, but
there are still obvious problems
at half back.

As France move a step
nearer a third successive
Grand Slam (they might be
entitled to feel they can survive
anything after this) the statis-
tics reflect Ireland's lack of a
cutting edge. This was their
14th successive defeat to the
7YicoJores during which time
the try ratio is: France 56, Ire-
land 7. The monkey on Ireland's
bade has grown into King Kong.

Long before Thomas
Castaign&de kicked foe winning
penalty in the 79th minute.
Irish observers were fearing
the worst and the worst, they
believed, was inevitable. It has
happened so often it is almost
as if it is preordained. Heroic
but futile. Dog day afternoon or.
as the French would have it.
ctejavu.

The closest Ireland, who test
in Paris last season by two
points, came toa try was when
O'Cuinneagain. peeling on the
short side of a 14-man line-out,
was tackled into touch by
Richard Dourthe a yard short
of tiie line. Dourthe's claim for
the man of the match award
was strengthened when he
scored the only try, courtesy of
a Renault-like drive from his
pack, in the 57th minute.

However; apart from Dour-
the's significant contribution,
tiie French had little else to
offer. As Toulouse, Stade
Franqias and Colomiers had
been overawed by Ulster.
France, for most of the match,
fell under the spell of the Irish
forwards. It would have been po-
etic justice had David
Humphreys accepted the life-
line thrown to him in injury time.

“We played with huge en-
thusiasm and achieved plenty
of clever moves,” Jean Claude
Skrela, the France coach, said.
Had Gatland uttered those
words it would have been more
understandable.

“I told the players at half
time, when we were 6-0 down,
to keep the ball in their hands
and believe in victory,” Skrela
added. “We kicked too much in
the first half but when it mat-

Scotland exploit instant impact

Scotiand’s David Hilton celebrates Scott Murray’s try

WHEN IT finally came to a halt
the effect of 80 minutes of un-
relenting Scottish drive was
clear to see through the Edin-
burgh gloaming on Saturday. It
brought the Welsh to their
knees on the pitch and
Lawrence DaJQaglio to his feet
in the front row of the press
box.

The England captain could
not help but join in the spon-
taneous applause. The wry
smile on his face confirmed not
just genuine admiration but the
feet that the power of Scotland
was sending him homeward to
thmk again. DaUaglio and his
team will have to fight to keep
tiie Ca l cutta Cup in their hands
this year.

Scotland’s unexpected suc-
cess was much more than a
plucky exploitation of another
false Welsh dawn. From Dun-
can Hodge’s crafty kick-off to
Gregor Townsend's touch-find-
ing finish, both symbolically be-
yond the grasp of Shane
Howartb and Whies, Scotland
were a formidable, fully com-
mitted and folly functional,
force.

They played with nous and
with not a little flair but their
victory was forged on the dri-

By Simon Turnbull at Murrayfield
Scotland 33 Wales

Tries J Leslie. S Murray Itoit Tries Gibbs, James
vaaW Ttjwnseod Conversions: Jenkins 2

iSff lS Conversions: Logan a Penalties: Jenkins 1

Penalties Logan 2, Bodge

Halftime 8-13 Attendance 67,500

20

<#>

Halftime 8-13

ring power of their forwards.
The blue tidal wave never
stopped. It gave Whies a fear-
ful buffeting.

“It’s as good as we’ve seen
from Scotland for the last 10 or
15 years,” Gavin Hastings en-
thused in the commentary box.
Jim Telfei; in his coach’s seat,
was more restrained. “Well,
we’ve got one victory now,'’
the pragmatic Borderer repGed
when asked where the unex-
pected result put his team in
the Five Nations scheme of
things. “It’s as for as well go
at the moment”

Scotland will go to Twick-
enham on Saturday week at the
top of the championship table,
though to defy 100-1 odds and
complete a Grand Slam as
rank outsiders they would have
to roll back the years as well as
the opposition. They have not
won at England’s HQ since

1983 and foe last time they won
in Paris, in 1969, Telfer himself
scored the clinching try.

Fbr the time being, Scotland
can be content with a signifi-
cant step forward from last sea-
son, when they conceded 85
points and 11 tries in their two
championship match pc at Mur-
rayfield. The change of direc-
tion was evident from the start
on Saturday, when Hodge's
switched kick-off took the puff
out of the Whlsh dragon before
it even had a chance to fire its
breath.

Instead of rewriting the
record books by the default of
another crushing defeat Scot-
land made an historic mark of
their own design - oq rather,
one of their kilted Kiwis did.
John Leslie, son of the former
All Black captain Andy Leslie,
sn a t ched Hodge's kick from the
grasp of Shane Howarth, a for-

mer All Black full-back, and
touched down the fastest or
joint-fastest try in the 116
years of the Five Nations - de-
pending on when you hap-
pened to start your stopwatch.

From the blast of Ed Mor-
rison’s whistle, it was 10 sec-
onds - the time it took Leo
Price to score for England
against Wales at Twickenham
in 1923. From Hodge's actual
connection with the ball, it was
nine seconds.

It was indisputably, a flying
start But, most importantly for
Scotland, it was not a false one

They enjoyed three further
moments of fry-scoring inspi-
ration: Gregor Townsend’s op-
portunist breakaway; Alan
Tail's superbly angled charge,
set up by Townsend; and the
burrowing dose-range breach
with which the 6ft 6in Scott
Murray finally put the contest
beyond Wales’ reach with four
minutes remaining.

The lasting image, though,
was of an all-farone Scottish ef-
fort Eric Peters hokfing up Ndl
Jenkins on the line and Murray
lassoing Howarth five metres
out Peters, an England student
rugby international, and Mur-
ray, a Scottish schoolboy bas-

ketball international, were both
toweringiy influential. But, as

'Mfprnut it- “ r TVw» few Anno

umxw bh c iv guya ujgeuier,

a meritocracy rather than a
few idols."

Such Caledonian collec-
tivism kept Tait on the field,
after badly lacerating a finger,
to make his scoring contribu-
tion and pushed Ken^y Logan
through the pain of a damaged
right thigh to kick 10 crudal
points. It also gave Scotland the
resilience to overturn a 15-20
deficit with an lfl-point charge
in the last 15 minutes.

. “IfouH probably say foe Wtelsh

were not a very good side and
not give Scotland the praise,"
Telfer said, aiming a verbal dig
at critics from the southern side
of Hadrian’s WalL “That’s the
way it it normally goes."

Vfeies certainly had their
moments: flashes of pace and
promise from the debutant
Matthew Robinson; the wiz-
ardry with which Robert How-
fey conjured Daffyd James’

gaep^epatchthatfedto

Scott Gibbs score; and anoth-
ed, fooiS^Wal^'Were^]

beaten. Thought we were lucky
to get second, really," the Kiwi
coach said. “We may have be-
lieved our own press."

. That said. Wales will be hop-
mg that Henry lives up to the
famous bflling the Welsh Rucbv
Union gave him in their faic-
tempting poster campaign.
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Nations matches

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tered I was satisfied with our
defence. That performance will
mature the side at the start iff
World Cup year."

By and large the indisci-
pline for which France are
infamous was kept in check. In
the opinion of the Ireland se-
lector Dona! Lenihan. the same
could not be said of the Irish.
“We played some great rugby."
be said. “Our defence was out-
standing but our discipline let
us down. The players were
shattered at the late score but
it isn’t the end of the world”

Paddy Johns, the Ireland
captain, said the performance
“gives us huge belief that we
can win the Triple Crown.”
How? For ail their passion,
power and physical presence,
Ireland find it extremely diffi-
cult to score tries and they are
not too dever in the goal kick-
ing department.

The pluck of the Irish is not
in doubt but luck? It is not true
that fortune favours the brave.

FIVE NATIONS
TABLE

P Mr D L P APt*

ScoSlond * 1 0 0 33 ?D ?

Ft once 1 t U 0 TO 9 2

Ireland ! O 0 1 9 10 0

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As for Castaignede’s winning
penalty, it was awarded for off-
side against Raul Wallace but
that was one of Peter Mar-
shall’s more dubious decisions.

Castaignede (he was not
quite the same after being
neariy cut in half by a thun-
derous tackle from Costello)
will be a free agent this summer
when his contract with Castres
expires and he may follow
Thierry Lacroix and Alain Pe-
naud into the Allied Dunbar
Premiership.

“I’m always being asked
when I’m coming to England,”
the 24 -year-old stand-off said.
“Maybe next year or the year
after. I want to play outside of
France and I*d like one or two
years in England. Whoever I
join it won’t just be for money.
It will have to be the right dub
who play the right way."

France scarcely played the
right way on Saturday but they
are blessed in a way in that Ire-
land seem to be damned and
they have until 6 March to pre-
pare for the visit of Wales to
Paris. It is not conceivable that
tire Welsh forwards can give the
French as hard a time as
Ireland, some of whose players
seemed prepared to die tor
dye) for the cause.

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here yesterday Peonte

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ma^ for English rughy.

An^f Robinson, the belea-
guered Bath coach, was ren-
dered almost speechless by

the heaviest defeat m lie club’s

history.

"That," Robinson said. ?was
a total embarrassment I'm
““barrassedto be the coach of
Bath. We were totally outmus-
ded and out-thought The hits

were much harderfown WhspSw

TOs missed tackles and there

By Tim Glover

wasalaekafabffitytokeepthe
balL We were lucky to get
nought”

And then Robinson waited
out of the press room. Clearly
he was too upset to tote any
questions, but there is a big one
hanging over his future.

One of the reasons Bath
were outplayed by Whsps is that
they have no say in the Pre-
miership — they have dropped

to seventh - and are out of the
Cup, the two competitions they
used to monopolise.

And, of course, a defence of
the European Cup, which they
won so gloriously last season,
never materialised fallowing
the boycott of the English dubs.
Perhaps that, more titan any-
thing else, has drained Bath’s
mental resources.

They have nothing to play far
except their pride and there
was precious little tfthatinyes-
terday’s performance. ■ ■

Motivation, however; is.one
of the responsibilities of the

Only cheers for
Carling on his
second coming

HE DID not have quite the im-
pact as a substitute that Ole
Gunnar Solskjaer did for Man-
chester United, but WQl Carting
certainty (fid not let Harlequins

atlfinT- .1

the Allied Dunbar Premiership
leaders, Leicester.

By and large, the modest
crowd of 6£12 seemed happy
with the second coming.

Carling is no Messiah and he
certainty did not produce any
mirades, but there was no an-
tipathy, no jeers, only chess.
Expectations were not high
apparently.

That was driefty because by
the time he (fidfrot onto replace
centre Peter Mensah, there
was far too much to do. The
Tigers were so far in front that
-lithe eight minutes 26 seconds
that remained of the match
would never have been enough-
Indeed, shortly after Carling’s
arrival Leicester scared their
final try, following a stupen-
dous break by Martin Corry.

Even so the former England
ca ptain, making his 153rd ap-
pearance in a Harlequin shirt
pronounced hfrwsrff satisfied
after a touch or three of the ball
and a couple of teak-hard tack-
les.

By David Llewellyn

Harlequins 9

Leicester 34

“It was just a gentle rein-
troduction to rugby” explained
Carting, 33. “It was just nice to
get back on the pitch. I er\}oyed
it”

J ohn Sdmsto; fife partner in
the centre for those few brief
minutes, said: “It’s a tug ask to

wpprthim to mmpm anH ppr-

form, but I think he slotted in
very well and with a few more
games under his belt he should
get better”

Harlequins have done their
best to shield Carling from the
evereager media once the an-
nouncement of his return had
been made earty last week. He
has trained with the squad
and come through the ses-
sions successfully, all the while
dntifelty avoiding contact with
the press.

No surprise then, in a virtu-
al press free week when Carting
added: “I’ve enjoyed the whole
week. It’s been great. There’s
been a veiygood reaction from
tiie players and all sorts of
people since I've been back.”
But he is weD awarqof what re-

mains to be done and he said:
“It’s now a question of getting
match fit and meriting a place
in the side. I've got to prove to
these guys that I can do it WH
have to see how it goes, work
on the RHIlg and fingers
crossed— I’ve got to put in
some hard weiktoget realty fit
There's a kit of work to be
done.”

He is not kidding- John Gal-
Iagbex; the former All Black,
who is now director of rugby at
Quins and was instrumental in
persuading Carling to re -sign
for the dub he waited out of 13
months ago, said: “Will didrft do
anything wrong. He didtft miss
anything But just because he
is back in the squad does not
mean he gets in the team fay
right”

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tj Stransky.

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saft (W Carting. 76). i Schuster, a Lugen
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(cape C Radgwoy 76). G Halpln (A totes.
73). G Llewellyn. G Morgan. R Jenkins, c
Sheasby (SWhlcr-Coopec 23: B Davison.
49). A Leach.

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76). C Joiner. P Howard (J Stuart. 76). O
Lougheed; J Stransky A Healey: G Rown-
tree (D JeOey. 70). ft Cocherifl [D West.
70). D Gar forth. M Johnson (opr). F van
Heerden (N Fletcher. 40). L Moody [W
Johnson. 70). M Cony N Back.

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coach although the captain,
Richard Webster; must also
shoulder his fair share of the
blame.

Ibis was the first occasion in

the Premier ship in which Rath

foiled to score and Robinson’s
embarrassment was under-
standable.

Before their biggest crowd at
Laftus Road this season, Vfesps
won by two goals, three tries
and two penalties.

“Bath are among equals
now” Nigel Melville said, al-
though there was nothing equal
about it Melville, in his first

league match since taking over
the senior

Rob Smith, added: “Things
have moved on. We’re not in-
timidated by Bath any more. A
lot of the old faces have gone.
TS>u*re more intimidated by the
Bath dug-out than the team. Wb

were up for this."

B a th were not By half-time
they trailed 17-0. Wasps did not
score until the 18th minute
when their No 8 Peter Scriven-
er burst from a line-out to

score through a suspect alarm-
ingly fragile defence.

There was a similar breach.

ftom longer range, in the 30th
minute when Paul Volley ac-
celerated from a line-out and
although he was ait down a
yard short, Mark Weedoo, the
Wasps captain, puked up and
went over

Before going of? with a cut
above his left eye, Alex King
scored 10 pants with two penal-
ties and two conversions. When
Martyn Wood scored the first of
two hies after Matt Perry had
a kick charged down, Robinson
had obviously seen enough.

He took off Gareth Cooper
(he was replaced by Andy Go-

marsaU, the Wasp on loan to
Bath), Mike Tindall, Victor
Ubiogu and Marie Regan.

By that stage Bath were
25-0 down and out of their
depth. What should be worry-
ing, not just for Robinson but
the England coach, Clive Wood-
ward, is the form of Mite Catt,
Jeremy Guscott and Perry.

The latter, like the team,
seems to have lost the plot Yes-
terday the full-back was com-
prehensively outplayed by Josh
Lewsey, but there was a simi-
lar story in almost every posi-
tion.

“We asked a lot of questions
to which they didn’t have any
answers,” Melville said. In-
deed. In response. Bath and
Robinson drew a blank.

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IMmbc: CThonus (WRU).

The London Irish centre Brendan Venter tabes a doable hit as he attempts to poll clear of the Gloucester defence yesterday. Hie Exiles’
42-20 success was their ninth consecutive victory, lifting them into thud place in Allied Dunbar Premiership One Peter Jay

Swansea top after brutal battle

SWANSEA MAINTAINED then-
lead at the top of the unofficial
Angfo-Wblsh table with a 28-27
win over West Hartlepool yes-
terday but the game was
marred with two s e ndi n g s -off
4k and several other players
* should have seen red

Swansea’s replacement prop
John Evans and temporary

West prop Paul Beal, onty on the
field because a team-mate was
in the sin-bin, were dismissed

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m which JJ van derEsch, West’s
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gm -hin for s tamping .

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for Wilcox

JASON WILCOX reaped the ben*
efit of the change in England
management Last night as he
was called up by Howard
Wilkinson, the caretaker coach,
for Wednesday's Wembley
friendly international with
France. Wilcox becomes the
first player specifically chosen
by Wilkinson, who made no
changes to the list he had been
left by Glenn Hoddle when he
named the 24-man squad last
week before his dismissal.

The Blackburn left-winger
joined the rest of the party at
Bisham Abbey last night as
cover for Fad Merson. who
picked up a knock in Aston
Villa's match against Black-

RON ATKINSON is hying to
sign John Newsome from his
old dub, Sheffield Wednesday;
to shore op the Nottingham
Forest defence.

Atkinson hopes to agree a
£i_5m fee later this week for
Newsome, who is out of Danny
Wilson's side and is thought to
be available at the right price.

The Fbrest manager had al-
ready made his move for New-
some before the eight-goal
annihilation at the hands of
Manchester United on Satur-
day. Wednesday wore originally
looking for around £2m for the
former Leeds centre-half, but
may release him for less.

Atkinson could have to sell
to buy and there may yet be a
deal for the controversial
striker Pierre van Hooqdonkto
leave. Leeds United remain in-
terested in the Dutchman.

Arsenal could be reatfy to fot
low up a £Sm bid made in De-
cember for Real Mallort
striker Daniel Garda Lara -
known as Dam, according to re-

Bywyn Griffiths

burn on Saturday. His inclusion,
after nearly three years without
a call-up, strengthens specula-
tion that Wilkinson will revert
to a 4-4-2 formation- The origi-
nal squad had no left-footed
atta cking player in it

Wilcox has played one pre-
vious international, against
Hungary at Wembley in May
1996. That was in the build-up
to Euro 96 and, though he per-
formed creditably, he was not
given a game on the subse-
quent tour of China and left out
of the champ ion sh i p squad.
Iiyury, followed by suspensions
and periodic loss of form, have

ports in Spain. The Spanish
First Division side told Arsenal
that they would consider a
move at the end of the season
for the Catalan player but offi-
cials from the Gunners at-
tended Mallorca's match with
Salamanca last week with a
view to discussing a loan deaf
The Ebotbafl Association will
await police reports before de-
ciding whether to take any ac-
tion following trouble at
Saturday's Second Division
match between Manchester
City and MiliwalL
Eight Mfflwall supporters
and three City fans were ar-
rested following trouble during
and after the match at Maine
Road, which City won 2-0. A
Greater Manchester Police
spokesman confirmed today
that nine officers were injured.

Last September’s meeting
between the two sides at the
New Den was also marred by
problems on and off the pitch
after a brawl between several

kept him out of the England
squad since, though he was put
on stand-by in one of Hodcfle’s
early selections and played in
nvi gianri B's defeat to Chile a
year ago.

The 27-yearold has spent all
his career at Blackburn and
was a member of the success-
fill 1994-95 championship-win-
ning squad, when he formed a
left-flank partnership with
Graeme Le Same which pro-
vided excellent service to Alan
CTigar - pT; now the England cap-
tain. The trio will now be re-
united at Wembley.

Meanwhile, the sports min-
ister Tbny Banks has denied
playing a partin Glenn Hoddle’s
downfall. Hoddle accused

Ran Ire nf ‘j umping on the harui -

wagon” in the wake of the
former England coach's com-
ments about the disabled which
eventually led to him losing his
job.

However; Banks said: “I am
disappointed that Glenn felt I
had played a part in his
remoraL I certainly didn't jump
in and as far as a bandwagon
was concerned, when you are
a public figure like the sports
minis ter when a sports-related
situation emerges you cant
have no opinion.

“I was being asked trail,
what are his chances of sur-
vival?' And I was saying trail,
quite frankly his position is
becoming increasingly unten-
able.'

“That is an assessment on
his position. I never at any
stage called for him to resign or
for him to be sacked,” he told
Radio 5 live.

Hoddle claimed on Saturday:
“What disappointed me was
the sports minister- don't you
think he should have phoned
me first? He jumped on the
bandwagon a littie bit too quick.
That built up, that snowballed
and in the end the press could
react on the back of that”

players.

Beckenbauer’s rap for
German ‘journeymen’

Newsome close to
£1.5m Forest move

FRANZ BECKENBAUER yes-
terday branded the German
national team a “bunch of jour-
neymen" after their 3-0 defeat
by the United States.

Beckenbauer who captained
West Germany to Worid Cup
victory in 1974 and coached
them to their triumph in 1990,
spoke as Germany’s decline
continued. Beckenbauer; now
Bayern Munich’s president and
head of his country’s bid to
stage the 2006 Worid Cup, said:
"There are too many mediocre
players, they are journeymen.
Where have the talented play-
ers gone? Bayers like [Andi]
Brehme, [Rudfi Voller and the
young [Lotharl Matthaus.”

Bruce Arena, the new coach
of the United States team, was
reluctant to bask in the gloiy
after the victory. “It's certainly
a good win for us," he said, “but
we're not going to blow it out of
context It’s a good win, but it’s
a friendly.'’

All three goals were scored
by Americans based in Ger-
many: Jo van Kkovski of For-
tuna Kola Tony Sanneh, once
of DC United and now on his
way to Hertha Berlin, and Clau-
dio Reyna of Wolfsburg.

Meanwhile, in Italy,

OVERSEAS

ROUND-UP

BY IAN DAVIES

Florentine's Serie A title am-
bitions took a knock as Milan
halted their run of 10 home
wins with a 0-0 draw and their
striker Gabriel Batistuta suf-
fered a knee injury. Giovanni
Trapattoni, the Fiorentina
coach, warned that Batistuta
could be out for a month after
the Argentine twisted his knee
midway through the second
half.

Second-placed Lazio closed
the gap with a 3-0 victoiy at
home to Perugia that cuts
Fiorentina's lead to a point
Marcelo “the Matador” Salas,
Lazio's Chilean import scored
in each half after setting up
Christian Vieri's 42nd minute
opener as Rome's big spenders
side set a club record of nine
successive wins -just one short
of the best seen in Serie A

The French midfielder Youri
Djorfaaeff hit a hat-trick as fifth-
placed Internazionale, who play
Manchester United in the quar-
ter-finals of the European Cup
nest month, took their record at
San Sira to 25 goals in the last

five games by beating the mod-
erate Empofi 5-L Roberto Bag-
gio opened the scoring with a
superb sixth-minute free-kick,
David Beckham's old rival, the
Argentine Diego Simeone,
added a second before Djorkaeff
opened his account with a 35th-
minute penally. Djorkaeff added
his other two goals in the 67tb
and 90th minutes.

In Spain, Barcelona seized a
three-point lead in La Liga
with a 2-1 win over Ex-
tremadura, while Real Madrid
moved into joint second place
with Celta Vigo after beating
Valladolid 3-2 with a hat-trick
from RauL

Celta Vigo impressed with a
4-1 win over Villarreal. Moises
Garcia gave Wlarreal the lead
in the 27th minute, but Juan
Sanchez equalised two min-
utes before the break Michel
Salgado gave Celta the lead in
the 81st minute, the Bulgarian
LuboPenev scored a third from
the penalty spot on 87 minutes
and the Israeli Haim Revive
made it 4-1 in injury time.

In France, the Italian striker
Fabrizio Ravaneffi scored twice
as Marseilles won 3-1 at home
to Bastia to go two points dear
at the top of their League.

Craig Moore deft) of Crystal Palace challenges Birmingham City's Dele Adebola at Selhurst Park Allsport

Rough justice for Palace

it was one of the most bizarre
and luckiest goals you could
wish to see, but at least Crys-
tal Palace's injury-time equalis-
er ensured justice was done at
Selhurst Park on Saturday.

Nearly two minutes of added
time had been played when
Birmingham's Gary Rowett
and Martin Grainger con-
verged on a ball five yards out-
side their penalty area. Rowett
attempted to dear the ball up-
field, but it cannoned off
Grainger flew back over the
head of Kevin Poole, the goal-
keeper and landed in the cor-
ner of the net

While the goal gave Palace
deserved reward for their in-
dustry, the greater justice was
ft denied Birmingham a win. On
this evidence you could not
imagine how Trevor Frauds’
side had got into a First Divi-
sion play-off position, let alone
stake a claim for one of the au-
tomatic promotion places.

It was hard to recall a single
attacking move of note from
Bi rming ham in 90 minutes.
Their goal came from a hotly-
disputed Paul Ftirlong penalty
eariy in the second half, the

BY PAUL NEWMAN

Crystal Palace X

Bir mingham City 1

Birmingham striker haring
gone down under an innocuous
challenge from Craig Moore.

While their defence looked
reasonably solid. Birmingham
offered next to nothing going
forward. Steve Robinson and
Martin O’Connor never got a
grip on the midfield. Jon Mc-
Carthy and Peter Ndlovu faded
to provide any threat from the
flanks, and Ftniong and Dele
Adebola looked cumbersome m
attack.

Palace should have won the
game in the first half, but
Wayne Carlisle shot wide from
six yards, Lee Bradbury’s
header was brilliantly saved by
Poole and Gordan Petrie head-
ed against the crossbar: Steve
Coppell, in charge following
the departure of Terry Ven-
ables, said: “TO* deserved a
draw. It was fabulous to see that
ball go in in the end. After the
way we played in the first 45
minutes and the spirit the play-
ers showed I cant be disap-

pointed. The first 45 minutes
was the best I've seen since
being here but I'm not going to
get carried away.”

Coppell is well aware of the
size of his task. Marin Goldberg,
the chairman, having already
tom the guts out of the side by
selling nearly all the best play-
ers. is now warning that several
more stfli have to go as he pays
the price for his ill-advised ap-
pointment of Venables and for
his poor record in the transfer
market

Goldberg inherited a first-
team squad that featured play-
ers of the quality of Matt
Jansen, Attilio Lombardo.
MarcEdworthy, Dean Gordon,
Neil Shipperfey Bruce Dyer;
Paul Warhurst and Hermann
Hreidarsson. Such a squad
were rightly considered pro-
motion material, but with the
players they have left- avoiding
relegation is now Palace's only
realistic target

Of the 14 on duty here, three
were youngsters who had one
start between them and five
more had made fewer than 20
first team appearances for the
dub. Even more tellingly; they

had scored a total of just 16
goals for Palace between them:
indeed. Palace do not have a
player on their books who has
scored more than eight goals
for the dub.

At most dubs such a situa-
tion would have the farts calling
for the chairman's head, but
Palace supporters are a docile
bunch. Perhaps, perversely,
they derive amusement from
Goldberg's attempts to justify
his actions. “Fbople might flunk
it strange given what’s hap-
pened in terms of player sales
and losing the manager, but we
are getting stronger and more
stable all the time," he said in
Saturday's programme. “We
are certainly moving in the
right direction now:" Wdl that’s
all right then.

Goals: Furlong J49. p«-ni <M. Qi.iingt.*
(90. og) M

CrfS*alRUaoe',5-J-;j:f.1iiier.'5niiil-. Ptr-
nc. Moore. Lmigtun. Fultorren. Foster
[Thomson. 78|. Afonin*. Co- i-sltf. Er.icitu.-y
McKenzie [Evono, an Substitute not
used: Woozley

Birmingham |W-3te Poole. Rovm:,
Ablett (Grainger. 23i. Johnson. Charlton;
McCarthy. Robinson, O'Connor. Ndiomi
(Forster, 35). Furlonj; Adetk-lj (Hughes.
HV

Bookings; Crystal PUxt: McKeme,
Bradbury Btrmfngtiani: Johnson
B sf oree C Wilkes (Gloucester!
Attendance: 15.996
Man of the match: unighan

Bolton battle to steal the points

THE REHABILITATION of Dean
Holdsworth goes on. Bolton’s
record signing, reviled by the
dub’s supporters as overpaid,
overrated and over the hill,
was again their match-winner
at Blundell Park on Saturday.

Bolton have sold last sea-
son’s leading scorer, Nathan
Blake, and now this season’s,
Aniar Gunnlaugsson, but
Holdsworth has conveniently
rediscovered the knack of
trundling them in

The former Wimbledon strik-
er is not scaring memorable
goals: the one he scored at the
seaside was as crabby as any-
thingyou could find on the fore-
shore. Rirt ft txwk his tally for the
season to nine, of which four
have been scored in the last
three games, all of them won to
keep Bolton in touch with

By Dave hadfeeld

Grimsby Town 0

Bolton Wanderers 1

the automata promotion places.

“Apart from his goal-scoring,
he is beginning to lead the line
very well,” said his manager;
Cofin’Ibddwhoneverthelessin-
tends to complete the signing of
the Danish striker; Bo Hansen,
today. As for Gtmnlaugsson,
such a crudd player eariy in the
season, Todd was dismissive.
“He wasn’t in the ride and
weVe been winning," he said
“Players come and players gp.”

Perhaps an even bigger fac-
tor in Bolton's current run is
their ability to keep dean
sheets. That was placed under
closer scrutiny than usual on
Saturday when Paul Warhurst,

who has made such, a difference
to their defence since his trans-
fer from Crystal Mace, went off
with a hamstring injury after
only 15 minutes. In his absence,
Mark Fish produced what Tbdd
described as a ‘tremendous”
p e r fo rmance, sacrificing his
normal adventurous instincts in
favour of a highly effective, no-
frills role at the heart of a well-
organised back four

Not that Grimsby presented
the threat that their recent
form suggested they might.
Their manager, Alan Buckley-
had a fair point when he said
that they had played the better
football, but the end product
was sadly lacking. Their prob-
lem was that all their best work
was done down the flanks but
there was little in the way of
firepower through the middle.

With Bolton's own central
midfield lacking its usual fluen-
cy, that left a strange vacuum at
the core of what should have
been a full-blooded promotion
battle. There was hardly a dear-
cut chance at either end and it
was fitting that a match which
could have a considerable bear-
ing on the promotion positions
should be decided by Aidan
Davison’s botched punch that
presented Holdsworth with his
unmissable opportunity.

Goal: Holdsworth (54) O-l.

Grimsby (A~4-2): Da-nson. McDermott.
R Smith. HanUyside. Gollimore (Clare
61); Donovan (Lever 82). Coldicott.
Groves. D Smith (Widdnngton 871; No-
Ban. Black.

Bolton (4-4-2) ■ laaske/aman; Cm. Fish.
Warhurst (Elliott 15). Whitlow. Johansen.
Jensen (Gardener 70). Frandsen. Sellars.
Holdsworth. Taylor. SobstUotM not
used: Gudiofmsen.

Referee; W Bums (Scarborough!
Bookings: Grimsby: R Smith Bolton:
Fish.

Man or the match: Fish.

Attendance; B.674.

Rangers
open up
12-point
cushion

SCOTTISH ROUND-UP

by damp McKinney

RANGERS INCREASED their
lead at the top of the Premier
League to 12 points with a 3 0
win over Dunfermline at East
End Park fast night. 1\ro goals
in the space of three minutes in
the second half and a third in
the 90th minute put Dun-
fermline iu their place - at !he
bottom of the division.

After a first half in which
Dunfermline's confidence grew
the longer the match remained
goafless, the home side pressed
forward with purpose after the
restart. Inevitably, they were
punished on the break. After 56
minutes Wallace's deep cross
was met on Hie volley by Andrei
Kanchclrids for a strong con-
tender for goal of the season.

That set Rangers on their
wav and they were able to dou-
ble their tally just three minutes
later. Tin* substitute Neil Mc-
Cann touched the ball into the
path of Jonatan Johansson -
preferred to Stephane Guiv-
arc'h in attack - and the Finn
produced a powerful drive from
the edge of the area. Johansson
sealed the success in the final
minute with a straightforward
knock-in from Rod Wallace’s
square pass into the area.

The win cancelled nut
Celtic's 3-0 victory over Hearts
the previous day when Henrik
Lars son's worth was again un-
derlined as he gave a master
class. It was nut just the Itot-
iriek the Swede scored, but his
Hicks and feints had the Hearts
defence chasing shadows for
most of the afternoon.

Larsson was outstanding
when Celtic were struggling in
the eariy part of the season but
now that they arc playing well
lie is simply majestic

The deft touches of die strik-
er who was signed for a mere
£630.000 won the highest praise
from his coach. Dr Josef Yen-
gloss. "He's the best player in
the country and one of the best
in Europe. In my career I have
wurked with top^juality players
like Ftitre. Ondrus and Piatt and
Henrik is up there among
them. He has the ability to do
things other players cannot”

I-ursson's strikes took his
total for the season to24 and in-
stalled him as the front-runner
for Player of the Year That
would be his second honour this
season as he has already been
named Sweden’s best overseas
player over the past 12 months.

Laresotfs first goal saw him
compete with Steven Pressley
for a high ball, collect the re-
sulting bouncing ball on his
thigh before passing it into the
net. His second was a header
at a corner, the third a driven
penalty, but his vision and abil-
ity to bring others into the
game allowed Harald Brat-
tbakk and Phil O’Donnell sev-
eral chances to further
increase Hearts' misery.

The Edinburgh dub has suf-
fered an almost total reverse
from last season when they
competed with the Old Firm at
the top of the league In a run
that culminated in a Scottish
Cup win. Hearts are now third
from bottom of the Premier
League with morale plunging.

Jim Jefferies, the Hearts
manager, has been struggling
to freshen his squad and could
be helped if David Weir agrees
a deal with Liverpool this week.
Any money generated would be
used to buy new faces,

Dundee overcame a flu epi-
demic to record a H) win over
Motherwell, while Aberdeen
dealt Kilmarnock’s title hopes
a blow by beating them at PSt-
todrie. St Johnstone kept
Dundee United in Uie relegation
area with a Gary Bollan penally.

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THE INDEPENDENT

Monday 8 February 1999

THAT WAS THE
WEEKEND THAT WAS

Bell drops clanger over
ban on Sentinel man

BRIAN HORTON’S first victo-
ry as Port \fcle manager foiled
to make the headlines in the
Stoke Sentinel's Green Vn on
Saturday evening for a simple
reason - the Sentinel's re-
porter was barred by the club
from attending the game.

The sanction against
sportswriter Martin Spinks
was imposed by\fele’s 67-year-
old chaimian. Bill BeD, who has
found himself the target of
Vale fans’ displeasure alter
sacking their manager of 15
years, John Rudge, two weeks
ago. BeU’s rage was apparently
sparked by an attack of van-

WT Bell Ltd, in which cars on
the forecourt had their wind-
screens smashed.

According to the Sentinel,
Bell telephoned the sports
desk on Saturday morning
after discovering the damage,
b lamin g Spinks for the attack.
“It’s your writing that’s done
this,” he reportedly said
“While I'm here, keep away.”
A bemused Spinks com-
mented: “To virtually accuse
me of inciting people to van-
dalise cam on his garage fore-
court simply beggars belief.”
What upset Bell, appar-

Whitby’s away-day
paradise goes on

WHILE FORTUNES go from
bad to worse An* Scarborough,
who slipped to the bottom of
the Third Division after their
5-1 home thrashing by Cam-
bridge coincided with Hull’s
shock 2-0 win at Brentford,
those of their Yorkshire coast
neighbours, Whitby Tbwn, go
from strength to strength.

This is in no small part
down to the Seasiders' extra-
ordinary away record.

Town, FA Vhse winners two
years ago and Unibond First
Division champions last sea-
son, have not lost away from
home this season and only
once in the last two cam-
paigns. a record extended on
Saturday with victory at Ayles-
bury in the FA Trophy.

The Ducks, whose F A Cup
exploits earned them nation-

al feme not so long ago, bad
themselves lost onfy once at
home this season and lead the
Byman League by a point
None the less, they could not
find a way past Whitby, even
though the Yorkshire side had
a man sent off only five min-
utes into the second halt
Judging by the circum-
stances of their winning goal,
Whitby are clearly blessed
■with such luck on their trav-
els that they should adopt St
Christo per as club mascot
With five minutes left, the
fourth-round tie was sffll goal-
less and heading for a replay.
But thrni Graeme Williams
crossed from the right flank,
the ball evaded everyone and
after striking the far post re-
bounded in off the Aylesbury
goalkeeper

ently, was Spinks's reporting
of the so-called “flat cap
march” organised by sup-
porters in honour of Budge
and his trademark headgear
More than 400 Vhle fens took
part in the march, all wearing

loons -one for each match of
their former manager's reign.

NOW Bell, chairman for 12
years, is threatening to sefl his
controlling interest in the
ciub, for which he is believed
to want some £2zn. Mean-
while the Sentinel is standing
behind its man and will leave
Fort Vale affair s unreported.

The wins achieved by
Blackburn in their last 20
Premiership away matches -
Saturday’s was the first of
This season
350

The League appearances
clocked up by Wolves
goalkeeper Mike Stowell.
who needs only 1 3 to pass
ex-England keeper Bert
Williams club record of 420
games in all competitions
564 .

The Premiership minutes
since Arsenal’s back four last
conceded a goal

My advice to the players
will be simple: be brave
and be bold

Ron Atkinson, speaking
before Nottingham
Forest’s 8-1 home (Meat
to Manchester United.

EDITED BY JON CULLEY

PREMIERSHIP TEAM OF THE WEEK

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Nnvc,K[lC United

OLE GUNNAR SOL5KJAER

Manchester United

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ANDY COLE

Manchester united

DENNIS BERGKAMP

Arsenal

JAMIE REDKNAPP

Liverpool

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Sheffield Wednesday

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Manner V the Hindi Arsine Wenger - bringing Arsenal lo the boll at just the right tune.
Performance of the we d m a: Manchester United. No explanation necessary.

Missing. . . making it. . . and mistaken

Danny Murphy

LIVERPOOL

The 21-year-old midfielder
cost Liverpool £l.5m from
Crewe in July 1997 and fig-
ured in 17 matches last sea-
son, winning two England
under -21 caps for good mea-
sure. Since then, however; he
has joined the long list of for-
gotten men at Airfield, hidden
away in the reserves. Has
made only one start this
season and last appeared as
a Uefa Cup substitute in De-
cember

Richard Cress well
York City

Scouts from Manchester
United and Arsenal should
soon be joined by other
Premiership talent spotters
in eyeing up York City’s
1 6-goal leading scorer. Hie
2l-year-old Bridlington-born
player, whom the Second
Division side value at film-
plus, is in the squad for
England’s under-21 match
with France at Derby
tomorrow.

Nick Berry

Crocked striker Pierluigi
Casiraghi, would-be star
of Chelsea, can only
dream of lighting up the
Bridge again. Just as
well he is leading a
double life as Nick Berry
ex-EastEnder and
current Heartbeat star

FOOTBALL/25

sg:

Wilkinson favourite
according to Venables

THE “exclusive" revelation of
the Mail on Sunday that
Howard Wilkinson will be
offered the job of England
coach at least until the sum-
mer also appears, strangely,
in the Sunday Express, while
the News of the World’s slant
on the story varies only
slightly. Their tale - also
dubbed “exclusive" - quotes
Terry Venables as declaring
Wilko to be favourite. The
Sunday Mirror, however,
takes a different line, sug-
gesting - “exclusively" of
course - that Kevin Keegan,
while publicly ruling himself
out, has told friends that were
he offered the job he would
find it hard to say no.

On the transfer front the
People seems to confirm the
suspicion that Harry Red-
knapp's dream is to field a flfest
Ham team composed entirely
of strikers. They say he is still
chasing Kevin Campbell,
whose future in Turkey re-
mains uncertain, and now
wants to buy highly rated Dan-
ish fonvard CarsteaFYedgaard
for CLBro from I^ngby Mean-

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while, he continues to pursue
Liverpool defender Rob Jones
and, according to the Sunday
Mirror, will be reach - to offer
Newcastle's Rob Lee a return
lo London.

The Ncirs o/fhc World says
Liverpool want to ditch both
Brad FTiedel and David
James and arc lining up a
more for Blackburn's out-of-
favour Tim Flowers to fill their
goolkeepingjeraey Hie F^x/ple
says Brian Kidd is looking at
Manchester City's Nieky
Weaver to replace Flowers
while the Mirror reports tliat
Sunderland’s Lec Clark is
Blackburn’s target to replace
the departed Tim Sherwood.

Both the Mirror and Peo-
ple say Newcastle have had
a £3 .5m offer for Dau Peires-
cu turned down by Chelsea,
while the Neirs of the World
and Express share the view
that Mark Bosnich could
change his mind and stay
with Aston Villa after all.

The People say Tottenham
are tracking Tranmcrc's 20-
year-old midfielder Lee
Maboa who would cost iitm.

FOOTBALL RESULTS

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FA CARLING
PREMIERSHIP

Oat| (0) _~™2 Dut t o n (1) 1

Burton 51. 65 Barm by 36

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Saturday

Aston Vm* 1 Btodrtmrn — — 3

Chela— „„1 Sontfa am pton— O

Loads — - O Newcastle 1

Leicester O Staff Med J

Liverpool 3 HlddlesbnHigIu.1

Nottm Forest — 1 Man Utd 8

Tottenham 0 Coventry O

Most Ham O Arsenal «

LEADING SCORERS

Lee Ml CCEarOtb The
Dbrta (Man Urdl IS 1 0 5 0 21

Owen (Liverpool} 1A 2 1 2 0 19

AloW (Coventry) 15 0 3 Q 0 18

(includes 17 goals tor Portsmouth)

Cole (Man Utd] ....12 1 O 4 0 17
Ward (BldCMarm) 1 3 0 3 0 0 16

(includes 1 5 goals tor Barnsley)
SoisWaer (Man U)10 1 3 1 0 15

(LeJcesrer) 1 3 0 1 0 0 14

(Includes 14 goals tor Bolron]

DnbBn (A Villa) ..12 0 1 0 0 13

(Includes 4 goals tor Coventry)

Rkand {Mlddlesbn>)l0 0 3 0 0 13
Fowler (Liverpool) 9 1 1 2 0 13

NATIONWIDE LEAGUE
FIRST DIVISION

Barnsley 7

Bradford ..........2

Bury O

Crystal Palace ,.1

Norwfcli

Port Male 2

Por tsm outh 1

Shelf Utd 3

Sunderland __2
WohrertunaiMson 1

Crewe 2

Watford 0

Ipswich 3

Birmingham 1

Bolton 1

Stockport ....... 2

Hudders fi eld O

lyiiunere — „ T

West Broro^. O

Swindon 0

Oxford Utd 1

LEADING SCORERS

Lee Bl CC EurOth Ibt
Hughes [W Brom) 27 0 1 0 0 28

Mm (Bradford) ..19 1 0 0 0 20

(Hu{idsfiettf)1& 12 0 0 19

(N«McM..i3 1 3 0 0 17

Oneora iSwinoon) .. 1 6 OO 0 0 16
hogell (SrocLponl -1 5 1 0 0 0 16

■Badass (Oxford U) 7 3 JO 0 0 IS
Brilarww (NorrrtJil 13 O 2 0 O 15

OidBii {WderljnO) 1 3 0 2 0 0 15

(Bristol Oil 0* 0 0 15

10 2 3 0 0 15

SECOND DIVISION
u me m we th — 4 Stoke

Burnley 1 Luton

GUBnghan 3 Chesterfield 1

MacdesileM _~0 Wmaham 2

Mm Clty_ 3 UDwaD 41

Northampton — O Blackpool O

Oldham — 7 Lincoln Ctty _JI

Preston— 2 Bristol Rovers -2

Reading o Walsall 1

Wycombe 1 Fulham—— T

Postponed: Wigan v Notts County.

P W D L F A Pts

Fulhaxn 26 IB 5 5 41 21 59

Piwscon 29 Ifi fi S 53 2S M

nbtsall 29 16 6 7 40 32 54

Bournemouth 27 14 7 G 47 27 49

Gmingham 28 12 12 4 45 26 48

Stoke 28 15 3 10 37 28 48

Man dey- 29 12 11 G 36 23 47

C h esterfield— 29 13 6 10 33 26 45

MiJIwall 30 11 10 9 34 35 43

Wigan 27 11 7 9 38 27 40

Reading— 28 10 9 9 33 36 39

Laron 27 10 8 9 37 36 38

Blackpool — .29 9 n 9 31 33 38

Ybrfi 30 9 813 38 49 35

Bristol Rsert.27 7 12 8 39 32 33

Burnley 30 8 9 13 35 49 33

Oldham 29 9 6 14 30 39 33

Colchester 29 7 11 11 31 43 32

Mnesham 28 8 7 13 27 43 31

Northampton J0 5 1112 24 33 26
Notts County .26 6 713 27 36 25
Lincoln Oty _2S 6 6 16 27 47 24

Wycombe, 29 5 9 15 26 38 24

Macclesfield _28 4 9 15 20 37 21

LEADING SCORERS

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CieiswtH (wfc) 14 3 0 0 0 17

Pavtoe (Burnley). ...14 2 1 0 0 17

Cwetoa (Bristol R) 13 2 1 0 1 17

«ton)—13 3 0 0 0 16

(Vblsatl) ..14 0 1 0 0 15

Bartow IWiBmi 11 1 1 0 2 15

[Marcs JBnttol R] 9 6 0 0 0 15

Hastes (Fulton) . .12 1 1 0 0 14

iMudes 10 goals for Bristol Rovers)
Hwafleld |fuhan) 1 1 2 1 0 0 14

(«Kiudes 8 goat for Haifa*)

Harris [Mdlhvain . ..ID 0 0 0 3 13

CoaeoDy (Wftexham) 6 S I 0 1 13

Geatar Wan dry) „ 9 1 2 0 0 12

□avta (Bumley) 8 2 2 0 0 12

pnduoes 10 goad for Luton)
rymAN LEAGUE Pramler MuUmb Bas-
ingstoke 1 BwehamWteed liBwHeyODul-
WKh 3: Gravesend 3 (^rSulton l;Hdmptor
Q BiBfriwy O’. Pur fleet D Slough 4. Walton
a Mersham □ EnfWd 4. lending post-
dons: I Aylesbury [P33. PtsSO). 2Purfk«i
(7649).- 3 Sf Alton* (24-17).

THIRD DIVISION

Brentford — — O Hull 2

CaiBsle 1 Leyton Orim^.1

DarHngton 5 Mansfield -1

Hartlepool 2 HeBT— ...0

Peterborough 5 Barnet 7

Pfymoaeh -f CtatMff — 1

Rotherham 2 Southend 2

Scarborough 1 Cambridge Utd -.5

Shrewsbury . — 3 Rochdale 7

Ibrqaay ..1 S cun t h orpe— -O

P W D L F API*

CanfifT 29 17 S 7 45 26 56

Canto Utd 26 16 5 7 49 32 53

Scnmhorpe__28 15 3 10 50 41 48

Mansfield 29 14 5 10 45 42 47

Rotherham. — 29 13 7 9 57 42 46

Brantford 28 15 1 12 44 42 46

Brigbtoc 30 14 4 12 41 40 46

P et er borough 30 13 5 12 50 41 44

Hanrax 29 11 10 8 40 33 43

Leyton Orient 26 10 11 7 37 36 41

Plymouth 28 11 7 10 33 26 40

Darlington 27 11 6 10 43 35 39

Swansea. 26 10 9 7 32 29 39

Enter 29 10 8 It 32 29 38

Southend 30 9 9 12 35 41 36

Torquay 29 6 12 9 31 35 38

Shrewsbury _30 9 9 12 31 42 36

Rochdale 29

Chester — 29

Hartlepool ^_30

Barnet—^. 30

Carlisle — 29

Hull 29

Scarborough _29

9 9 12 31 42 36
9 9 1 1 29 34 36

7 14 8 36 41 35
9 6 15 40 51 33
9 6 15 39 55 33

8 9 12 27 32 33
7 5 17 30 47 26
7 3 19 29 53 24

LEADING SCORERS

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Forrester fSaiihrpe) 16 2 1 0 0 17

Partridge (1omiwy)..i3 l 0 0 1 15

Botlar (tamb lhd)--H 12 0 1 15

Ouraca (Bren [ford! II 1 2 0 0 14

flack (truer) ... 10 2 0 0 2 14

wintams fCaidlin . -10 3 1 0 0 14

NATIONWIDE

CONFERENCE

rb nabo rough 1 Hayes 4

Hedm=sforo__1 Moreaunb* 0

Kettering O Dower .. 2

Postponed: Leek Town v Welling.

P W D L F APts

Kettering 29 16 6 7 42 21 54

Cheltenham . -2 6 15 8 3 47 20 53

Rnsbden-,. 24 12 7 5 43 22 43

ytowfl. 25 11 9 5 40 32 42

Stevenage 25 11 9 5 31 23 42

Hayes 26 13 3 10 37 36 42

Dover — 27 1 1 8 8 38 3141

Hcdnesfbrd 26 10 11 5 33 27 41

KLagstonlao — 25 10 10 5 34 32 40

Nortfawfcb 27 11 7 9 31 29 40

Morecambe — 29 10 6 13 46 57 36
Hereford 27 9 6 12 29 32 33

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6 12 29 32 33
5 12 35 30 32

7 9 34 31 31

Leek Tbwn — 26 8 5 13 37 39 29
Woklqg 24 8 § 11 26 29 29

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Barrow -—-.-28

Southport 24

UWHng 26

Fhi n bo rough -26

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6 10 11 29 45 28

7 6 15 27 44 27
5 9 10 29 39 24

5 9 14 25 43 24

6 6 >4 29 54 24

FRENCH LEAGUE: Le Havre 1 (Oirbumal
og 66) Monaco 2 {jmetM 63. N DUye 681;
Rennes l (Vtoser 87) Bttrdeau* 1 (frlltord
36): Marseilles 3 (tea 33. Rauaneffi 41. 82)
Basda 1 { Lauren: 76); Lyons 2 (Grass! 62.
Job 66) Nancy 1 |Cecarfno 12): Pairs Si-Ga-
msin 2 (Madar23. Rodriguez SO) Sothaux I
(Bouger 631; Names 2 (Moniemiblo 28.
Dediuud 45j Lens 0. Metz 3 (Meyrieu 34,
Bofrui 35. HorUnlle 72) Lenient 0
DUTCH LEAGUE: RKC Waalwljk 2 (Hongen-
dorp 4. pen 16) MW Miasmcht 2 lEmerson

3. Pctcz 711: Ftxturu 5«tard 2 (Hamming 47.
Jeffrey 87) NAC Breda 0; WHIeni II THburg 3

? e«ay 55. Gaasek 70. 77) H e aeiu re en

(De Nooijer 46. Samaidtic 67); TWeme
Enschede 0 AZ Aftmaar 3 (Van Galen 14.
UngerA 34, Huiberts 75); NEC Nijmegen 1
(Oe C5ler 71) Graa/sctup Ooeiinchetii 1 (Vis-
ual 54).

BELGIAN LEAGUE: Beveren 0 SJnt-Thjiden 1
PORTUGUESE LEAGUE: Porto 1 MAfrTk
mo O, Ben/fca 5 Farense 0: Academlu 2
Esrrela Amadcwa 2; Chaves 0 Rio Awe 0.
Salgueiros 0 Afverca O. Vlrooa Setubai 0
Betra Mar 0; Braga 2 Vitoria Guimaraes i .
Campomaioierse 0 Sport mg- Lisbon 0
SPANISH LEAGUE: Valencia 0 Deportbo
0; Alaves 2 OvhhJo 2: Real Sodedad 1
Tenerife 1 : Esoanyol 1 NUioru O. Crita Vmi
h VKlarreai 1. Real Madrid 3 UaUadoSd 2:
Enremaoura 1 Barcelona 2; Racing San-
tander 2 ArWeifc Bated 0. ftsaf Zaragoza 2

Real Beds 2

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL LETWSUt Syd-
ney United 1 Adelaide City 1; Adelaide
Sharks 1 Perth Glory 3; South Melbourne
3 Melbourne Knights 1. Brisbane Strikers
5 Northern Spirit 1; GippsUnd Falcons 2
Carlton 1; Newcastle Breakers 1 Sydney
Olympic 1 Lending poddkmt: 1 South
Melbourne !PI8-Pts39J: 2 Sydney United
(18-36). 3 Adelaide dry (18-33).

PRESS A JOURNAL . HIGHLAND
LEAGUE: .Brora Rangers 2 Elgin Oty 5.
Clacnnacuddin 3 Fraserburgh 1; Port
William 1 Keith 3; H unity 5 Cow Ranged
1. Lossiemouth 2 Forres Mechanics 2;
Naim County 1 Deveronvale 5. Other
matches postponed.

m i cR N An OWU- waomar Ua t k rcnurm*.
Fta).- United Scares 3 (WIOVSW l6,Sanneti 74.
Repu 26} Germany 0

SCOTTISH PREMIER
LEAGUE

Yesterday

Dunfermline (0) O Rangers (0) ... 3

KancheisKIs 56
Johansson 59, 90

Saturday

Aberde en .7 Kilmarnock 1

Celtic 3 Hearts 0

DniMtoe .1 Motto rwell — O

St Johnstone— 1 Dundee Utd O

P W D L F APts
Rangero.^_24 16 5 3 50 21 S3

KUmaroock _23 11 8 4 31 14 41

Celtic J3 11 7 5 52 22 40

St Jofanstooe .24 9 9 6 29 33 36

AHaeherweD — 24 7 8 9 23 30 29

Aberdeen 24 7 6 11 27 40 27

Dundee — 74 7 6 11 21 36 27

Hnnrts .24 6 6 12 22 34 24

Dundee Utd —24 5 B 11 23 29 23

PunfenoOne 2 73 9 IB 37 19

LEADING SCORERS

Lee SCCCEurOthlbt
Larsson (Celtic) ....19 10 4 0 24

Wallace (Rangers) 14 1 2 3 0 20

Afeertz (Rmgetsl ... .7 0 3 4 0 14

Jen (Aberdeen) . . 13 0 0 0 0 13

Dodd* [Dundee Urd)_B 0 3 0 0 11

(Indudes 3 goals for Aberdeen)

FIRST DIVISION

Ayr 1 Morton 0

Hamilton. A Airdrie 2

Hibernian 2 Stranraer — 0

st Mirren ... 3 Ralth _T

Postponed: Clydebank v Falkirk.

P W D L F APts

Hibernian 26 T9 5 2 6T 25 62

Falkirk I 3 6 6 41 25 45

Airdrie 76 13 5 8 34 30 44

Ayr 25 13 3 9 46 30 u

St Mirren ?6 TO 7 9 24 30 37

Morton 6 8 6 12 26 28 30

Clydebank ?4 7 9 8 24 29 30

RaJUft 76 6 8 12 27 42 26

Hamilton 76 5 9 12 27 43 24

Stranraer 26 4 2 20 24 52 14

LEADING SCORER5

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Hunt (Ayri . ..I* 0 2 0 0 IS

Ketch (Fjim) ... 13 D I 0 0 14

HWOur lAvi) ..11 I 0014

McGIntay (Hfbsi . 12 0 0 0 D 12

PmmrmMaea (Hhxtt2 OOD £1 12

Cranford (HRh) .10 0 1 0 0 11

Mries (Hamilton) .10 1 0 0 0 II

SECOND DIVISION

Arbroath —1 Anoj 7

Clyde ........ — — -0 Livingston 3

East HFe— 1 Partkk 0

Queen of Sooth 0 Forfar ^.3

SdrBng — 1 Inverness Cal — 5

P W D L F APts
Unfngstoo.^-24 16 7 1 46 23 55
Inverness Cal .2 4 14 G 4 51 33 48

Clyde ._2A 10 7 7 33 27 37

Partich 24 10 4 10 24 25 34

Alkuk. 24 9 5 10 48 37 32

Stirling — 24 9 4 11 36 45 31

East Hire 24 8 4 12 2B 41 28

Arbroath ?4 7

Queen of Sth. 24 5
Forfar 2U 4

6 11 22 33 27

7 12 24 33 22
6, 74 20 45 18

LEADING SCORERS

Lee SC CC EurOth tot
(Sdringi ... 17 0 2 0 0 19

iwn (UflngRnl 1 1 2 2 0 0 IS

an (Imwr Call .12 0 1 0 0 13

Cameron lAllcu) 10 II 0 0 12

Coamry (Clyde) ID 7 0 0 0 12

THIRD DIVISION

AMon .4 Brechin 1

Berwick 1 East SdrBng 2

Montrose 3 Q u ee n 's Park — 0

Roes County 2 St anfc OBsemnlr _2

Postponed: Dumbarton v Cowdenbeath.

P W D L F APts

ROSS County «23 15 4 4 54 24 49

Brechin 22 12 6 4 27 20 42

Albion J3 11 3 9 33 40 36

Stenheemuir -24 10 5 9 37 31 35
Dumbarton — 23 9 6 8 30 27 33

Berwick 24 7 11 6 32 29 32

Quee n 'S Park J4 6 8 10 28 30 26
EkM Surfing _24 5 10 9 30 32 25
Montrose. 23 5 5 13 28 48 20

Cowdenbeath^

4 13 20 38 19

LEADING SCORERS

LgeSCCC EurOth tot
Tarrant |Bnss Co) . .11 4 2 0 0 17

Ftaaaory IDumbrm) 13 1 0 0 D 14

Far*-*oaJltoss Col 13 0 0 D 0 13

Didumi (Bream) ... 9 3 0 0 0 11

Larimer (ARucm) ... .7 3 0 0 0 10

UWBOND LEAGUE Premier DMstoK
Bishop Auckland ) Samber Bridge 1; Btyth
Spartans 0 Accrtngron Stanley 1; Gateshead
0 Hyde Utd 3. Lancaster 0 Marine 0, Spen-
nymoor 0 Friddev 1 , Slfllybrilige 4 Ldgri RMI
4; Winsftxd Utd 3 Oansborough 0; Worksop

2 Owrtey D Leading pwWwt! 1 Almn-
Ovjm (P26. Pts5i): 2 Bamber Bridge (29-
49). 3 Worksop I27-4B). Rnt MUk
A ir ret on 2 Farsley 2; Bdper 0 Stocksbridge
PS I; Gretna 3 Great Harwood ft Huttnall

3 FHuon 0: Lincoln Utd 1 Congmon j.
Nether flrid Kendal 0 Drcyfcden 2; WhIUey Bay
I Bur-rough 1; Wltuxi Albion 0 Harrogjte
town 3 . Other matches postponed.

ITALIAN LEAGUE

Bologna (1) 3 Bari (1) 1

Slgnon 36 Knud sen 5

Andersson 46 27.000

Kotyvanov 90

Bans Darvei Artriersson sent off. 59. Bari's
Phil Masbigo sail off. B7

Fkxwthu 0 Milan 0

42.000

toter (3) 5 EmpoU (0) 1

Baggio 6 Carparetli 57

Shneone 17 60.000

Djorkaerf

pen 35. 67. 90

SmpalTs Fabla Criban sent off. 73

Lazio (2)~ 3 Perugia (01.....

Wen 42 45.000

Salas 45. 76

Salernltana (0) _1 UtUnese (1) 2

Werinl og 47 Locarelli 38
30.800 Amoroso 46

Sampdoria .__J> CagBari

5.000

Sampdoria's Marco FraiKesttMH sear atf.
73, Sampctana’s And Ortega sail oft. E5

Uenazla fJJ -3 Roma 10}

Retoba 1 Di Bugio 63

Manlero 47 10.600

Ballarln 65

Vicenza (1) 1 Piacenza (0) 0

Ambrosetn 10 14 000

Pfoo.-n.-o 's Daniele Dclh Corn sent otf. 39
P Ml D L F APts

Fkradna 20 13 3 * 37 IS 42

Lazio ^0 IT 5 3 43 21 41

HZan 20 lO 7 3 31 23 37

Parma — 19 9 7 3 33 17 34

Inter _20 10 4 fa 42 27 34

Udlneae 20

Roma 20

Bologna 20

Juvencus - ii

Bari 30

CagRari 2U

Vkaezla 30

Perqgfa

Plaoaaxa 30

Wcenza — .^^20
Sampdoria . - 70

Saterafeana TO

EmpoU 70

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7 7 6 25 1-2 28
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7 3 10 30 33 24
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DR MARTENS LEAGUE Pramler Dhri-
mloa: Aihcr stone 2 Cuvik-y 1 6jl" '
Or.mmjni 1. Bromswaue 0 llkeuon 2 Bui-
ion Athlon t Safitourv 2. Dor.:h«rei a
Nunejion 1; Clotumei n ur.-.irw u Merrhvr
1 HafKOtven ft. Lxmwrlh 0 hinr s Lynn 2
Cambndiie Civ 2 Kathv.rtf 2 Leading porl-
tkrac 1 Nuneiron |P20. PIS631. 2 G'ou--.-
ter City (28-451. 3 Barn Qy i2£-43f
FA UMRO TROPHY Foorta ran* Aider ■
trior Town I Armndun 2. A'riion ? St Aif-jn s
City 2. Aymbury 0 WlvttJV I U:C 2

fStdtSlcfi 0. Chflrennjm 0 Sicwr.iijeO Che-
sn.im 0 Hendon 2. Cohan Bov 3 Bnaf ad rijii
AacrsK- 1 CXhvntum i- itecbnda: - T-w. :d
ft Gukefcy 0 Ernlcv 2. Hidvn 2 IMyivuip--
More 1; ufarthnnch I V.'.vr- tcr 0. Kirvoin 2
SournpcvT 3: weymoutn I Fti«r Green 2.
Whyieleole 0 KJnnioiMn 3 Woking () Kush-
den It Dvvnnvh 0 3 HmcMey Utd 2

LEAGUE OF MULES: Alan LiSl i CokiuA ,
Ouay 3: Ban.i;or Oty 5 Hotywell . CJernar-
feel lovin 3 Aberytmvt'i i> 1 C u-

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THE INDEPENDENT

Maodbv 8 BeWuary 1999

*

Chelsea seek
old rhythm
to skip blues

they TOOK their time giving
out the scores from other
grounds at Stamford Bridge
on Saturday, which was proba-
• bly a good idea. When your
heroes have just struggled to a
1-0 home win over Southamp-
ton you do not really want to
hear that Manchester United
have scared eight at Notting-
ham Rirest and Arsenal fbur at
West Ham, It could not have
been cheering news for the
Chelsea players either.

Graham Rix, Chelsea's
assistant rnanagpr deputising
for Gianluca Vialli in the press
conference, would not be drawn
bn their reaction. Again, prob-
ably the right decision.

Chelsea are not playing well
and they know it They are, how-
even winning more often than
not and they are trying to draw
comfort from that as they
attempt to restore their flagging
confidence.

When a team is seeking to
play the football Chelsea aspire
to, confidence is crucial. With-
out it, players hesitate where
once they played by instinct, err
on the side of caution where
once they sought adventure.
Defenders hoof the ball away
instead of passing it midfield- '
ers sit deeper and are less ris-
ible when a team-mate is
looking to pass, forwards
snatch at chances.

While Chelsea have lost
their fluency and their passing
is laboured they are not yet
shirking responsibility. “There
are two types of courage." Rix
added. “One is about putting
your foot in and making the
tackle. The other is where you
put your head up and play. We
need that at the moment

“Direct football does not ask
too mapy questions of players
but the way we play does. If
things are not happening off the
cuff; if it is not Sowing as usual,
doubt sets in.

“We have lost a bit of confi-
dence and are not playing as
well as we can but we are
delighted to grind out a result
The Chelsea of three or four
years ago would not have done
that It's a clean sheet and
three points. You have to look:
at the positives."

The negative would appear
to be the absence of Gustavo
Foyet, the Uruguayan who was
making such an impact when
he suffered a bad injury in a
tackle by Southampton’s
Patrick CoDeter in the first
match between these sides on
Boxing Day. Though they have
only lost once since then - to
Arsenal - Chelsea have rarely

Glenn

Moore

Chelsea l

Southampton 0

played well u We have missed
him," Rix said. “He is a key
player for us, influential in the
middle of the park and both
boxes. He's a clever player and
he scores goals."

Foyet remains Chelsea’s top
scorer although the honour is
now shared with Gianfranco
Zola. The Italian's free-kick,
steered over the stooping
Mikael Fbrssell as he broke the
waH was his nth goal of the
campaign.

Poyet is unlikely to be back
before April and, with Tore
Andre Flo, Pierluigi Casiraghi,
Michael Duberry, Bernard
Lambourde and Albert Ferrer
also injured, even Chelsea's
impressive squad looked a bit
thin on Sahsday. As Flo is due
back within the fortnight there
are no plans, said Rix. to emu-
late Arsenal and buy more
forwards.

Chelsea, who remain second,
squeezed between Manchester
United and Arsenal now go to
Sheffield Wednesday in the FA
Cup and will shortly face
Valerenga of Norway in the
European Cup-Winners' Cup. to
between are three League
games - at home to Blackburn
and Liverpool and away to
Nottingham Forest - from
which they will probably need
to take nine points to keep
pace with United and ahead of
ArsenaL The squad may need
some rotation.

So far this season Chelsea
have used 28 players in the
League, the same as Man-
chester United in their last
three championship seasons.
However Arsenal required 26
players last yean a figure un-
matched fay a title-winning side
for 50 years. When it is consid-
ered.that from 1868 to 1984, for
a 42-game season, no team
used more than 20 players, and
Villa, seven years later used
only 14, it underlines the grow-
ing need for .large squads.

This applies to relegation-

figh tin g teams as well but their
resources are thinner This sea-
son David Janes, the Southamp-
ton manages; has bought 11
players for a total of £5m, leav-
ing htm with more than £2m
chan ge from the sale of Kevin
Davies. The result is a team with
a surprising amount of heart and

or ganisa tion, given the turnover
of players and poor season, but
little spark. Although they had
plenty of possession they rarely
threatened to beat a defence in
which Franck Lebouef was out-
standing and Eld De Goey com-
manding.

With Fbrest and Chariton
looking in grave danger
Southampton effectively need
to get above Everton, Coventry
and Blackburn to escape rele-
gation. Everton, while grim to
watch, have a solid enough
defence to pick up draws;
Coventry have the goalscoring
potential of Darren Huckerfey;
Blackburn have quality in all
areas. The outlook is not good
for the Saints.

If there is hope it is in their
spirit “We took the game to
them but didn't quite have the
end product" Jones said. Chris
Marsden, the latest signing at
£800,000, showed promise while
Jason Dodd had a good game
against Zola.

Less edifying was a group of
visiting supporters who took the
usual abusive “banter" a stage
further beyond the pale by
glorifying in Poyet's injury.
Stewards were noticeable by
their absence.

Marsden was also, according
to Jones, involved in a curious

exchange with the referee, Rob

Harris, who was alleged to
have said when booking the
midfielder; “You’re not in the
Endsleigh now." Apart from
reflecting badly on Nation-
wide’s marketing - perhaps
the buflding society should con-
centrate on developing its pro-
file instead of influencing
England’s choice of coach - it
confirmed a long-held suspicion
that referees are stricter in
the Premiership. “I thought
the rules were the same what-
ever league you play in," said
Jones, not unreasonably.

Goal: Zola (II J 1-0.

Cbateea (4-4-2): De Goey: Pecrescu.
Desailry. LeboeuF. Le Saux: wise. Dl Mat-
tea MonK Babayan) (GoWbaek. 76); Zola.
Forssdl (Nlctiolls, 61). SiriHCftHNS not
ik«1s Newton, Terry; Hitchcock (gk).
Southampton (4-3-1-2): Jones; Hlley
(Bridges, 61), Dodd. Lundefcuam. CoUeter
Oakley. Marsden. Kachloul: Hughes
(Bradley. 89): Beattie. Oscenstad. Sub-
stitutes not used: Howells. Monk.
Scensgaaiti (gkl.

Weferee: R Harris (Oxford).

Boohnct Ou l it Di Matteo. Sow l m 1 41 -
coir Oakley; Marsden.

Man of Che match: Lebouef.
Attendance: 34.920.

Julian Joachim fires in Aston Villa’s consolation goal despite the desperate challenge of Blackburn’s Jason McAteer

Reuters

Why England need Sutton

MEMO TO Howard Wilkinson:
in the cause of enhancing Eng-
land's attacking options, the
forgiveness which your prede-
cessor belatedly showed to
Andy Cole should now be
extended to Chris Sutton.

One of the many messy
episodes that marred Glenn
HodcQe’s reign was his un-
charitable attitude towards
Sutton after he refused to play
for England B. The Blackburn
striker felt he merited a place
in the senior squad, and the
evidence of his club’s first
away win this season was that
the caretaker coach would
be advised to seek a reconcil-
iation.

Despite being inactive since
Boxing Day, the man who
matched Michael Owen and
Dion Dublin goal for goal in
last season’s Premiership
gave a textbook demonstration
of modern centre-forward
play. Mobile and menacing,
strong and selfless, Sutton
showed exactly why Aston
Villa were so keen to buy him
before beating Blackburn to
Dublin.

The former Coventry play-
er was intermittently danger-
ous as Villa created enough

BY Phil Shaw

Aston Villa 1

Blackburn Rovers 3

opportunities to have at least
drawn. Yet he looked one-
dimensional almost an old-
fashioned target man, com-
pared with Sutton. At a time
when Alan Shearer appears to
have lost sharpness. Hoddle's
long-term successor can not
afford to ignore a player who
does not turn 26 until next
month.

“It’s a shame he's not in the
England squad." said Brian
Kidd in a television interview.
But when, a press man later
asked, not unreasonably,
whether the change in the
national set-up might open the
door for Sutton, the Blackburn
manager assumed he was
being asked to kick Hoddle
when he was down. He
dismissed the question as “a
cheap shot".

In that prickly moment, it
could have been Alex Ferguson
talking. Kidd’s new dub are a
long way from matching the
standards being set by his old
one, but 16 points out of 27
under has charge suggests they

are more likely to emulate
Villa's surge up the table after
John Gregory's appointment a
year ago than remain near the
relegation zone.

It helps, of course, when you
can immediately spend £l5m-
plus on players, and Kidd’s
captures were heavily involved
in the goals that condemned
Vina to a third successive de-
feat. The first howevec was do-
nated by Gareth Southgate,
who rose before the Holte End
like Andy Gray or Peter Withe
of old to head past his own goal-
keeper

Sutton created the second,
incendiary energy burning off
Ricky Scimeca before he
picked out Ashley Ward. Matt
Jansen, buzzing between mid-
field and the front like a born-
again Beardsley, made the
third, volleyed in by David
Dunn.

Julian Joachim’s riposte
might have launched a fight-
back had Dublin not sent a
header at John FUan two min-
utes later though Gregory, ever
the realist, declined to “dress
up" the ease with which Villa
surrendered possession.

If the last two Blackburn
goals underlined the extent to

Bergkamp’s imperious majesty

WHILE SOME teams trumpet-
ed their championship- w inning

credentials with ostentatious
excess, Arsenal were under-
stated and effident in brushing
aside West Harp. Two goals in
the last 10 minutes of each half
showed much about the
character of either team: the
ruthlessness of the north Lon-
doners compared with the lack
of application of their hosts, a
trait which is contributing to
the home side’s fast-evaporat-
ing Uefa Cup ambition.

Arsenal were not going to be
distracted by such weak oppo-
nents. Julian Dicks snarled on
the boundaries of his fenn&arter-
ritory - raising the occasional
elbow; snapping at a stray heel
- but Arsenal have enough big,
bad wolves of their own to be
afraid of the grizzled defender

BY P&TER CONCHIE

West Ham Uni ted 0

Arsenal 4

The match marked the
home debuts of the rehabili-
tated Italian Paolo Di Canto and
Marc-Vrvien Fod, West Ham's
£4m signing from Lens. The
Cameroon international
showed his potential within
the first five minutes,, keeping
pace with Marc Overmars and
dumping Patrick Vieira on his
backside. Thereafter he faded,
but the 23-year-old is
undoubtedly one of Harry Red-
knapp's shrewder overseas
purchases.

In the Boxing Day fixture.
Overmars was West Ham’s
bete noire. Given the Ham-
mers’ profligacy in midfield on

Saturday, it was predictable
that Dennis Bergfcamp would
dominate. He threaded a per-
fectly weighted ball through to
Nicolas Anelka on 20 minutes
which the Frenchman might
have done more with than
shoot wide.

Bergkamp opened the scor-
ing after Trevor Sinclair’s care-
less back-heel ran to Vieira.
Bergkamp took up the slack in
midfield and ran on to score
with an imperious curl of his
right instep from the edge of
the area. Overmars added a
more pedestrian second on
the half-time whistle, finishing
at the second attempt after an
intelligent far-post cross by
Ray Parlour

West Ham started the sec-
ond half brightly, initially show-
ing more wit and insight than

in the first period thanks to the
substitute Eyal Berkovic. The
home team pushed forward,
their opening move culminat-
ing with the ironic sight of Di
Canio extravagantly felling to
the turf inside the Arsenal
penalty area. Referee Winter,
unsurprisingly, was unim-
pressed.

Arsenal eased their way
through the second period,
containing West Ham in all
areas. When Di Canio lost out
in the tackle to Martin Keown,
Anelka made light work of
beating both centre-halves and
the goalkeeper. Parlour's con-
tribution was a late tap-in.

Ars&ne Wenger was cir-
cumspect on the subject of his
team's form compared with
the same stage last season.
“It's quite s imilar, but I don’t

know if we are going to be as
consistent as we were last
year Manchester United win be
a huge test for us," he said-
One, rather dauntingly, to be
taken without Emmanuel Petit
and Bergkamp, who are both
suspended.

It is more than nine Pre-
miership hours since Arsenal
conceded a goal The title may
rest on whether they can
achieve double figures after
their visit to Old Trafford a
week on Wednesday. As for
West Ham it was their second
successive 4-0 home defeat,
after a loss to Sheffield
Wednesday. If they lose at
home next Saturday by the
same margin, Harry Redknapp
really will have cause for con-
cern. The visitors: Nottingham
Forest

Bergkamp: Opened scoring

Ooalc: Betgkarop (35) O-l ; Onemwre (45)
0-2: Andka (83) 0-3: Parlour (87) 0-4.
Vint Hum Uttic«d (4-4-2): HIsJop;
Bread** [Bcrfcowie, 46). Ferdinand. Pearce.
Dteks; Sinclair. Lampard. Mlnto. Fot KJt-
son. Oi Canio. Substftotas not u«d:
Lazartdte. Cole. Moncur. Forrest (311).
Arsenal (4-4-2): Seaman: Dben. Adams.
Keown. UAnrertum; Vieira. Parlour. Petit.
Ouenrurs Berskamp. Anelka Sub s t an ces

notnawfc Hughes. Garde, Upson, Dlawara.
Mannmger (rfj.

BooWngs: West HHc DUS. Fofc MiMnafc
MAnterbum.

Rafcren J Winter (Stockton-on-Tees).
Man of the match: Bvgkatna.
Attendance 36.0*2.

Canny Carbone outfoxes lame Leicester

IN THE conventional division of
the Premiership into three
leagues within a league, Leices-
ter Cily have tended to be
placed in the middle group -
those with European aspira-
tions^ - and Sheffield Wsdnesdgy
among the wretches happy
merely to survive.

Even in a season largely
devoid of shock results, how-
ever; a team from the lower
orders playing well should beat
a team from the middle section
playing badjy and that was the
way of it at Filbert Street on Sat-
urday. Indeed, there is now
only a point between them.
Wednesday are three wins
dear of the relegation places
and Leicester’s failure to live up

By STEVE TONGUE

Leicester Cily 0

Sheffield Wednesday 2

to expectations means that
Continental ambitions appear
to depend on qualifying via
either the Worthington Cup or
the dreaded toterToto Cup,
into which ring their chairman
has Sung his hat
Even the normally loqua-
cious Martin O'Neill could not
find much to say about his
team’s flaccid performance and
consequent defeat “The long
and short of it Is that we
deserved to be beaten,” was the
manager's unusually pithy and
entirely accurate summary. His

postbag this morning may well
contain another missive from
the supporter of 50 years’
standing, who wrote to com-
plain that the recent 3-0 FA Cup
defeat by Coventry was the
worst display he could
remember for a long time.

It was certainly better than
Saturday's, if only because in
the cup tie Leicester created
numerous chances ami were
still in with a shout until stop-
page time. Against Wednes-
day, they threatened once in 90
minutes, when Muzzy Izzet
wriggled cleverly past three
defenders, only to have his
angled shot blocked on the line
’by Andy ffincliffe’s lunge.

After that, the little man

who caught the eye, wriggling

and jiggling to best effect in the
land of the giants, was Wednes-
day’s Benito Carbone, allay ing
any worries that Matt Elliott,
Steve Vfelsh and Gerry Taggart
would batter him, butter him
and serve him up on toast.
Carbone believes that Wednes-
day have been allowed much
more space playing away from
home, which is why their only
two League wins since 12
December have come at West
Hain (4-0) and now Leicester
He was unmarked when
forcing Kasey Keller to a des-
perate save in the first half and
cracking in Niclas Alexander-
sson’s cross for the second
goal. So was his partner; Andy

Booth, in to uting Seller a gain
and then setting up the open-
ing goal for Won Jonk.

Wednesday’s attack floun-
dered in the immediate wake of
Paolo Di Canio’s push on Paul
Alcock, but Carbone has now
scored seven times in li
games. “He does so much run-
ning off the ball and assesses
situations so quickly" said
Wednesday’s manager; Danny
Wilson. An extra striker to
replace Carbone’s feUow-Iialian
nevertheless remains a prior-
ity. Wilson must have feared
that Arnar Gunnlangsson from
Bolton, having turned down
his approaches, might give him
cause for further regret on Sat-
urday, but the Icelander was

brought on in midfield, too for
from goal to hurt a solid
Wednesday defensive line.

He will be ineligible far the
Worthington Cap semi-final in
io days’ time at home to Sun-
derland, who, despite their 2-1
deficit, must have taken as
much encouragement from this
game as Wednesday.

Goals: look (48) 0-1 : Cartw* (77) 0>2.
LdeastarCby (3-5-2): Keller EBrotr. Tag-
gart (Sinclair. 56). Walsh (Gunnlaugssan.
56); bnpey (Zagorakis. 77). Izxet. Lennon.
Ufladiome, Guppy; Cor tee. Heskey, Sob-
stftattB not used: Kaamark, Arphexad

WO-

SbtffltM Wednesday (4-4-2): Smkek;
Atherton. Walker. Thorne. HlncWirre:
Alenndersson. Jonk, Sanner. Rutfl: Car-
bone. Booth. Subsdsaes not nsed:
Newsome. Humphreys. Briscoe. Sce-
fanotric. pressman (gtr).

Referee: G WBlard (Worthing).

Bk wh ed i Letcesten Taggart.

Men of the match: Carbone.
Attendance: 20.1 1 3.

which they missed Ugo
Ehiogu, the home side's lack of
spark and ingenuity highlight-
ed how important Lee Hendrie
has become since Gregory
plucked him from the reserves.
The fact that Filan was busier
than Michael Oakes should not
blind those who bankroll Villa
to their lack of strength in
depth.

The respective substitutes’
rosters were instructive. Black-
bum's boasted £l6m worth of
s ignin gs whereas Villa’s con-
tained four players yet to start
a Premiership fixture. When
Rilham turfed them out of the
FA Cup, Villa’s untried young-
sters contrasted with three in-
ternationals on the Second
Division leaders’ bench.

While Gregory asserted that
Villa's need for fresh blood
“went without saying", he
rightly argued that there is still
time for Villa to regain their
pre-Christmas pre-eminence.
They do not play again until a
week on Wednesday, at home
to Leeds, and he intimated
that it would be “a big sur-
prise" if there were no new
faces in the claret and blue by
then.

Villa are out of the top three

for the first time, and face Livv
erpool Manchester United and
Arsenal in their final away
games. But if they can put to-
gether a winning run before
that sequence, there must be a
possibility, however slender,
that their rivals will fee! the
pressure of pushing for more
than one prize.

Meanwhile, as those above
them flaunt their resources -
the names Solskjaer, Forssell
Kami and Diawara spring to
mind - it seems to sum up the
state of Villa's challenge that
they have a £7m “asset” who
is neither injured, suspended
nor available. Pressed on Stan
Collyraare’s future, the once-
supportive Gregory replied:
“Don’t waste my time. Ask
him if you can find him." The
spirit of forgiveness can, it
appears, be stretched to break-
ing point

Comhu SouMi£.ir:o£ (2 7) O- 1 : Ufcj«j |b2)
0-2. Dumw (bfaj 0-3. Joachim (W») 1-3
Aston vnu (3-4-)-?! Oakes. Sctowu.
Southgate. Barry [Thcvnpwr, 79j. itotson.
Grayson. Tjytai. Wright; Mmcn. Joxhnn.
Dublin. SobHftataa not used: VM»eH.
Standing, Samuel. Encktrtnun igk).
Blackburn Raven (3-4-1-21- fitan: Pea-
cock. Broomes. Davidson. McAreet Dunn.
McKJnlay. Vfllco*: Jansen (Duff. 82). Sut-
ton. Wad. SwbsttettM not mod: Dames.
Doilly. Croft. Flowers (gkl
WWW K Burge ( JonypandyL
aiMn of the match: Sutwn.
Attendance: 37.404.

Solano rewards
Gullit’s tactics

DAVID O'LEARY’S response to
his first home defeat as a man-
ager was to reiterate his long-
held view that any dub which
is to mount a serious chal-
lenge in the Premiership needs
a bigger squad with more cover
in all positions than Leeds are
able to muster.

It sounds like an arguable
view until you consider mapy of
Leeds’ absentees have been
missing for most of the season
and their youthful replace-
ments have been doing nicely
without them. Admittedly,
O’Leary was also without his
suspended leading scorer
Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink on
Saturday, but his opposite num-
ber, Ruud Gullit could match
that misfortune, as Alan Shear-
er was also suspended.

In realify, the difference be-
tween the sides came down to
tactics, and surprisingly it was
the cavalier Gullit who ground
out the victory with a pr agma^
approach worthy of OXeary’s
mentor and predecessor at El-
land Road, George Graham.

Newcastle arrived with the
intention of condensing play
into the central third of the pitch

to frustrate Leeds’ normal fluid
passing game and pinch what
they could on the break, it
worked a treat.

Solid at the back and com-
bative in midfield, Newcastle
were content to await their op-
portunity and when the only

goal trf the game came it was via

a classic counter-punch . Leals
were mounting their best spell
of pressure early in the second
half when the ball was cleared
to Newcastle’s Georgian strik-

By Phil Andrews

Leeds United 0

Newcastle United l

er Temuri Ketsbaia. He bought
time for reinforcements to ar-
rive by playing it back to Diet-
mar Ham arm. and by the time
he got it back Nolberto Solano
have arrived to run on to his
little flick and plant a low drive
beyond Nigel Martyn.

It was a just reward for the
Peruvian, who was unlucky not
to give his side the lead in the
first half when his 20-yard drive
beat Martyn only to comeback
off a post Ketsbaia. too, had
eariier let Leeds off when he
tailed to take advantage of a
F»oor back-pass by teenage
defender Jonathon Woo dga te.

“We did exactly what we had
to dor said Gullit “We con-
tained teem m a certain area of
the pitch and prevented them
creating anything."

Bowyer ran at theheart
ot the defence once or twice but
Leeds did little to disturb the
composure of Newcastle's baric
four. It is two defeats in a row
now for O'Leary, who must find
away of halting the slide before
Graham returns to ElUmd
Road with Tottenham for Sat-
\ fS? Rfth-mund tie.

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Mggjgy 8 February 1999

FOOTBALL/27

Forest bedevilled by Beckham

;%i

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By nick Harris

Nottingham Forest
Manchester Un ited

“YOUR BOY had a good game, 1 *
the Norwegian journalist said

U) the proud fatheras he waited

outside the dressing-room for
his son to emerge.

“Thanks” said Mr Beck-
ham, knowing that although it
had been Dwight York© and
Andy Cole who had made Big
Ron’s side look rather small hy
scoring twice each, and Ole
Gtinnar Solskjaerwho had t he n
doubled the tally to a disre-
spectful level it had been his
son, David, who hart been the
real Goliath in the humiliat ion
of Nottingham Forest

“How can you describe it?
The finishing was amazing,”
Alex Ferguson, the United
manager; said when asked how
he felt his team had performed.

“I don’t thin lr it’s ever ha p.

pened before." he added of the
four goals that Solslgaer scored
after coming on 18 minutes
from the end.

“The boy’s a finisher There's
no question about that."

The United manager
acknowledged how strong his
attacking options now are. “In
the second halfyou couldn’t say
there was a weakness in any of
the forwards,” he said “And to
have 92 goals hy February [59
of which have come in the Pre-
miership] is pleasing."

Ferguson added his forwards
are aware ofhisdflemma when
it comes to deciding which sink-
ing combination to select, and,
apparent^, they understand his
problem.

“Ole's an intelligent lad and
I think there’s a realisation
that he is up against two fan-
tastic, in-form strikers," Ffer-
guson said. “But he’s a terrific
sub," he added, with a wry
smile, of the man who helped
United to the biggest Pre-
miership away win since the
-'League started in 1992.

For David Beckham, there
was only praise. “Marvellous.
He can put the ball where he
wants." said Ferguson of Beck-
ham’s passing, which on Sat-
urday was as accurate and
perfectly weighted as it is
possible to be.

Apart from the sublime dis-
tribution. the young Londoner
(still being booed for his red
card against Argentina, yawn,
yawn) also displayed a hunger
for possession, intelligent off-
the-ball running and an almost

Ole Gnnnar’s blazing: Manchester United substitute Solskjaer beats the Nottingham Forest defence to score the first of his four goals at the City Ground Empics

telepathic relationship with
Ibrke and Cole. Watching the
three m harmony was, at times,
mesmerising, with Beckham
either carving clever channels
down the right and then pick-
ing out his man, or collecting
the ball in midfield and acting
as a mercurial servant for the
striking pah; slotting in behind
them as they set off on perfectly
timed runs and delivering the
telling pass on cue.

AH this bodes well for the
England team and their care-
taker, Howard Wilkinson, who
was at the City Ground to watch
his United contingent in action.
United’s young lions all came

through the game unscathed
(although Gary Neville hurt
his ankle in a challenge with
Hugo Porfirio and will need
monitoring) and Wilkins on wiD
have been pleased with Cole,
whose goals further justified
Glenn Hoddle’s last act as
coach in recalling him.

United’s rich period of form
could probably not come at a
better time for Ferguson either,
with the title race intensifying
and the European Cup quarter-
final first leg less than a month
away. For Ron Atkinson, die
defeat could not have come at
a worse time. A week after he
had marshalled Fbrest to their

first win in 19 games, they wee
tom to pieces.

United were superiative, but
they were certainly not hin-
dered by the gaping boles that
were left around the Forest
penalty area. “In a nutshell, we
got murdered." Atkinso n said.
“United are a magnificent side
and they proved it today. We
contributed a bit towards it as
welL Quite a bit They were
quality all over the field and we
weren’t as good as we could
have been.”

Asked about Solskjaer; Atkin-
son could only grin and say: “He
got four didn't he? Good job they
didn’t put him on earlier."

No one felt it appropriate to
ask the Fbrest manager what
he thought about the United
fans ’ chants of “Big Ron for
England”.

GOALS GALORE FOR RECORDBRE AKERS

k Vtorte (J)O-I: Rogers (6) l-l: Cote
(7) 1-2: Cole (49) l-3:Ybrice(66) 1-4; &*■
sk&er (SOI 1-5: Sobkfaer (87) 1-6; SoP
skjaer (B9) 1-7; Soiskjaer (90) 1-6.
Noettagtwn Forest (4-4-2}; Beasanc
Harkes, HJeWe. Palmer. Armstrong (Por-
flrio, 74); Scone. Johnson. Gemmill (Maro-
son. 57). Rogers; Van Hooijdonk.
Darehevilie (Freedman, 25). Snhwlnrn
I: Ban-WilBams. Crossiey (gk).
“ tod (4-4-2): Schmoehri-
G Nevffle. Johnson. Scam. P Neville: Beck-
ham. Scftoies. Keane (Curtis. 71). Btomqirtst
(Bucl 75): Ybrise [Soiskjaer. 71). Cole. Sob-
i not used: (Vby Van der Gauwv (gt).
P Alcock [Ha Is lead, Kent).
k Forost: Porfirio. United:
Keane. P Neville.

■m of the matdc Beckham.

30.025

Manchester United's previous
record away win was a century
ago - 7-0 at Grimsby on Boxing
Day 1 899 - so long ago that they
were still called Newton Heath,
the works team of die Lancashire
& Yorkshire Railway (as op-
posed to the works team of
BSkyB), and were in a division
with Burton Swifts. Burslem
Port Vale, Loughborough Town.
Gainsborough Trinity and Wool-
wich Arsenal. They were knocked
out of the FA Cup by South
Shore.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's four
goals in 1 4 minutes is one more
than Everton have managed all
season at home.

United scored eight away on
7 February, 1 970 - one day off
Saturday's date- when they beat
Northampton 8-2 in the FA Cup
at the old County Ground (Best
6, Kidd 2).

Uncannily, the highest away
win in the Premiership before
Saturday's demolition was
Sheffield Wednesday 1 Not-
tingham Forest 7 on April Fool’s
Day. 1995.

United have now scored 59
goals in a mere 25 games this
season. The record for the
most goals scored in a Pre-
miership campaign is Newcas-
tle United’s prodigious 82 in 42
games

Liverpool expose Boro’s dearth of youth

REPUTATION, UNLESS you
are someone like Alex Fergu-
, son with so much repute in the
Ibankyou could survive years of
withdrawal, is a temporary
thing.

Six months ago Roy Hodg-
son would have walked into the
England job, now he has a
Blackburn sacking on the debit
side. Bryan Robsorfs star is still
high but for how much longer?
The o v e rwh elming impression
left by this game was that be
should be contacting Lancast-
er Gate this morning because
there are few grounds for opti-
mism on Teesside.

There are gruesome echoes
of two seasons ago about Mid-
dlesbrough's descent Then,

By guy Hodgson

Liverpool

Middlesbrough

even with Juninho, they plum-
meted like a stale and, courtesy
of the Football Association
docking them three points,
were relegated.

It should not happen again,
if only because they have 35
points already and would not be
daft enough to send a weakened
side anywhere, but it will be a
spring of anxiety. In December
Boro briefly touched second
place in the Premiership and
beat Manchester United at Old
Trafford but have not won
since and have a ragged look of

a iwim that is over the h21 and
absefling down.

Ibo many players are over 30
but age is not the only reason
for their troubles because the
team has two sides wanting
irreconcilable things. The
strikers, particularly Brian
Deane, are begging for wingers
to hare down the flanks and fire
over crosses while the midfield
like painting pretty patterns
before producing cute passes
that would be ideal for quicker
forwards.

As a consequence Liverpool
could be functional rather than
brilliant - and we have de-
manded that from them so
often we can hardly quibble now
- and still win at a canter

thanks to the craft of Jamie
Redknapp and Paul Ince.

They went ahead after eight
minutes courtesy of Michael
Owen tapping in after Robbie
Fbwier bad revealed his extra-
ordinary predatory powers and
then allowed Middlesbrough
to play in front of them, waiting
for the moments to pounce.

They duly arrived just before
half-time, Vegard Heggem and
Ince, in his 500th League game,
scoring within seconds of each
other. “A bad minute" was bow
Robson described it, which
rather discounted the mad
hours which have been spent
compiling a team which is long
in experience and woefully
short |n youthful pace.

The second half conse-
quently became a contest only
after Dominic Matteo was
sent off when Boro could use
their numerical advantage to
score through Phil Stamp five
minutes from the end. “I was
pleased with the perfor-
mance," Robson said, which
was akin to Napoleon taking
pride in the. orderly way his
troops left the field at Water-
loo. The best moments ar-
rived too late.

The dismissal provided tbe
main talking point afterwards,
exposing the fa cile re ^menta-
tion of the rules by football's
world governing body Fife. The
home supporters were furious
with the referee, Peter Jones,

and Mikkel Beck for their parts

in Matteo’s red card but both
were blameless.

Television evidence showed
Matteo 's knee had clipped
Beck’s heel as the Dane raced
dear. He did not dive, the trip
was accidental, but Jones had
no choice but to send Matteo off
because the Fife president,
Sepp Blatter and his like give
tbe referee no discretion to use
their judgement whatsoever

Fife wants robots in charge
of matches and that is what
they are going to get and they
will only be happy when R2D2
officiates in the TSforid Cup final
The daleks are taking over
after alL

Both managers agreed that

Matteo had to go. but in those
rircums fences the sending-off
should be enough punishment
The Football Association
should use whatever powers
they have not had stripped l?y
the world governing body a°d
waive a suspension.

Goals: Fonder (8) 1 -0; Heggem (44) r-O;
Ince (45) 3-0: Stamp iS5| 3-1.
Liverpool (3-5-2): James: Carragher,
Matteo. Staunton: Heggem. Redknapp.
ince. McManaman. BJometoye. Owen (Ger-
ratd. 80). Fowler (Rtede. BO) S ubsti tu tes
(not used): Song. Harkness. FrlecW (gk)
Middlesbrough 1 3-5-2): Sc h war ter:
Cooper. Vickers. PaJlisrer. Festa (Stamp.
6 1 (. Mustoe. Gascoigne. Tbwnsend (Mad-
d»son. 72|. Gordon: Beck. Deane. Sob-
statutes (not used): Moore. Stock date.
Be res lewd (gk).

Sending-off: Liverpool: Matteo. Book-
ings: Liverpool' ince: Middlesbiough. Fil-
lister. Maddison.

Referee: P Jones (Loughborough).

JMao of the march: Redknapp
Attendance: 44.384

Graham

takes

perverse

approach

BY CONRAD LEACH

Tottenham Hotspur 0

Coventry City 0

ANY HOPES that Tottenham’s
3-0 FA Cup replay win over
Wimbledon last' week had cured
Spurs’ goalscoring equivalent of
writer’s block proved to be
short-lived, as four days later,
they were up to their old tricks
again and clocked up their sev-
enth draw in their last !0
matches in all competitions.

And as if to highlight George
Graham’s perverse approach to
winning games he left Chris
Armstrong, Tottenham's top
scorer on the bench, preferring
Steffen Iversen despite the
Norwegian carrying a hip injury
into the game. The Tottenham
manager admitted afterwards:
“Iversen looked out of sorts."
That was never more obvious
than after 52 minutes when he
skied the best opportunity of the
game, when unmarked inside
the six -yard box.

But if Graham's strikers
were unable to profit from the
opportunities that came their
way. that was in no way the fault
of the midfield, who controlled
the game from start to finish,
with Darren Andcrton and
Andy Sinton both trying their
luck from long range only to hit
the frame of the goal.

It was only in the first half
that Coventry posed any sort of
threat to Tottenham. With half
an hour gone. Gary McAllister
gave Darren Huckerby a
chance to score but Ian Walk-
er saved both the initial shot
and the follow-up with his feet.

But once the Coventry man-
ager; Gordon Strachan, had ad-
mitted “we didn't play well"
there was something else that
he wanted to get off his chest
In what is becoming almost a
barely disguised weekly ritual
of bemoaning his side’s status
as minnows, this time he
rounded on Gordon Tbylor; the
head of the Professional Foot-
ballers' Association.

Strachan revealed that Tby-
lorhad not approved of him buy-
ing the Bosnian international
captain. Mohammed Konjic,
who made an impressive debut
asa substitute, on the grounds
that he had not tried hard
enough to bqyfrmn within these
shores. Rightly, Strachan de-
fended his reasoning that he
should be allowed to buy who he
wanted, but wrongly he brought
Arsenal's purchase of
Nwankwo Kami into the debate,
hinting that Arsenal did not
face any bureaucratic opposi-
tion in signing the Nigerian. In
fact Arsenal got their man only
two days before Coventry

Things can change quickly in
football - just ask Glenn Hod-
dle - but with a George Graham
team not scoring and Strachan
having a good old whinge, welL
it was just like the good old
days.

Ibctontoni Hotspur (4-4-2). Walker, lar-
Itco (Sherwood. 87). Campbell. Young. .
Carr. Simon. Freund. Nielsen. AnQerton:
Ferdinand, Iversen (Armstrong. 70) Sub-
stitutes not used: Baardsen [gk|, Vega.
Fa*.

Cov e n t ry Ctey: (4-4-21: Hednun. Breen
(Alois). 901. Williams (Konjic. 53). Shaw.
Nilsson: Froggact. McAllister. Soicvedt
(Clement. 7Dj7leiler. Whelan. Huckerby
5i4»Hn»w not used: Osnzomc (£k). Ed-
worthy.

Referee: S Lodge (Barnsley I .

Booked: Totienham: 'faung: Coventry.
Whelan. McAllister. Teller
Man of tbe match; Andcrton
Attendance: 34.379.

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OwrtttTl v WVnbk-Oon (8 01 fama Scot-
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ty v Clydebank (7 45).

Racing (National Hunt unless stated)-
Newcastle (Firs race 2.10): SOUTHWELL
(All -weather Flat. 2.0): Fentwell (1.50).

TUESDAY

FOOTBALL (7.45 unless seatvd): B
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(? JO) lot the to Kane Grand, nredunj.
Usdar-21 Friendly: England v France

SATURDAY

FOOTBALL (3.0 oaJeaa stated): m Cup
Sooty Fifth round: Arsenal v Sheffield Uid; Barm-
ley v Brtsrol Rovers Evwton v Coventry:
Leeds v Tottenham: Sheffield Wednesday v
Chelsea: Huddersfield u Derby FA Carling
Pre w to i st il p: Charlton v Uwrpcol: West
Ham v Nottingham Forest. MatSoowMe
Football Lugut First PtvMo a . Bolton v
West Bromwich: Bradford Cty v Ipswich.
Bristol Gey v Sunderland, Crystal Palace v
Crewe: Oxford Uu) v Swindon: Portsmouth
v^Stpckport v mrrrtfngham: ftanmere

Dover v Famborougn; Forest Green v
KfeiBTanian. Hereford v Woking: Rushden 4
Diamonds v YfcMI; WrtIJng v Stevenage,
Tee nents Scottish Cop Third -round
replay: Dundee Uid v Queen’s tok.
RUGBY UWKBL CM Matches Cambridge
Unfcr v The Army (7. 1 S): (Went v Oiford U3v
(7.15).

CRICKET Socoad unofficial Tfett: Zkn-
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FOOTBALL- European ChaxDplonsMp
Grove »*: Cyprus u San Marine (4.01 /or
Union itotStuti. Umossof): Groen Eight
Malta v.Wtgosiavfa (2.0) (or fij'Qow siotSwm.
WrCemai. l aw rodonM hivnrTIrv England
v France (B.O) (of Wembley). Repubflc u Sre-
tand v Paraguay (7 JO) (at LuaobwM RoaH.
Dublin).

RUGBY UNION: AHed Doabar Prernkr-
sMp Odd: Newcastle v R i chmond (7.30).
CRJOOTC Cariton aad Unted THanguUr
Om Day Baric* Hart. Ausbafa v England
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RACING: Ludlow (2.0): WOLVERHAMPTON
(All-weather Flat. 2.10); Chepstow (1.50).

; Watford v HuddereAett Wolves « tor
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Qty v MlHwaB: Luton v Wredum, Macdes-
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Brighton v Exeter Cambridge Ufd v Scun-
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Shrewsbury v Scarborough: Swansea v
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v Tdiont Ktdderminscer v Rushden 4 Dta-
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v Southport. Stevenage v Kings Ionian. Wok-
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v DunfermHnt Clydebank or Ross County v
Queen's Park or Dundee United: Greenock
Morton v Clyde: Uvingston v Si Johnstone:
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ond DMMbb: Forfar v East HfKwiiwniess
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Clifton v Bracknell [2.30}: Esher v Chel-
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12.30): Newbridge v Merthyr |2 30): Pon-
lypool v Llandovery (2 30): Tondu v Bony
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Hawks/Krlso u Preston Lodge: HawdvBor-
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Hm DhMen: Borougmwilr v Cumr. SW-
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v Glasgow Hawks. Second Dhriskw: K»-
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Throw Glenrothes v Stewart's Mel FP. Gor-
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DMdon (Z30): Ballymena v Buccaneers:

Biackrodi College v Vbung Munsier. Gahw-
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RUGBY LEAGUE: SOk Cut
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LACING: Bangor J2Q): SOUTHWELL (AIL
veather Flat, ilO): Newbury (1.20).

Fourth ItMnd: Salford

Eagles; Leigh MR v Hull KR (ut lefoh RL)\
Feadwrstone Lions vHaHte Blue 5(» (7.30)
(m Past Office /boa. Fear freestone).
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v London Irish (2.0). London Scotton v
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PRESTON V BRISTOL R
WYCOMBE V FULHAM
PLYMOUTN V CARDIFF
ROTHERHAM V SOUTHEND

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Rumble’s 10-wicket perfection

THE INDIAN leg-spinner Anil
Rumble yesterday wrote him-
self a place in cricket history
when he took all 10 Pakistan
second innings wickets to lead
the hosts to a series-levelling
victory in Delhi.

Rumb le emulated English-
man Jim Laker’s feat against
Australia 43 years ago, finish-
ing with 10-74 from 26.3 overs
as India routed Pakistan hy 212
runs in the second Test to
square the short two-match
series. Laker took 10-53 in the
Manchester Test in 1956, fin-
ishing with 19 wickets in the
match,

Khinble, a 28-year-old com-
puter engineer, proved un-
playable on the dusty
Ferozeshah Kotla track, pro-
viding a sensational finish to
Pakistan’s first Test series on
Indian soil in 12 years. Wasim
Akram’s Pakistan, chasing a
mammoth victory target of 420,
had no answer to Rumble's
guile and were shot out for 207
an hour after tea on the fourth
day.

KUMBLE'S VICTIMS

PAKISTAN - Sacuod Innings

Saced Anwar c taxman b (tumble ....69

Shahid Afridl c Mongia b Kumble 41

Ijaz Ahmad tow b Kumble 0

Inzamarn-ul-Haq b Kumble 6

Yousuf You harm.] Ibw b KumbJe 0

Moln Khan c Ganguly b Kumble 3

Salim Malik b Kumble 75

Wasim Akram c Taxman b Kumble ._37
Mushtaq Ahmed C Drauld b KumMe 1

Saqlain Mushtaq tow b Kumble 0

VUaqar Ybunrs not out 6

Extras {10nb. 2w, 15b. 21b) 29

Tbtal (603 oners) 207

Ml: 1-101 2-101 3-1154-175 5-1276-
128 7-186 8-198 9-190.

BowUnr- Srinach 1 2-2-50-0 (nb-7 w-2):
Prasad £-1-15-0 fnb-1): Kumble 263-

9- 74-10 (nb-2); Sngh 13-5-51*0-
Result: India beat Rakiscan by 2 12 runs.

BEST TEST INNINGS BOWLING

10- 53 J C taker: BVGLAND v Austrafla.
OWTmfford. 1956.

10-74 A R Kumble: INDIA v Pakistan.
New Delhi. 1999.

9-28 G A Ldhmann: 5 Africa •
ENGLAND. Johannesburg. 1896.

9-37 J C Laker: ENGLAND * Australia.
Old Traffdrd. 1956.

9-52 R J Hadlee: NEW ZEALAND
v Australia. Brisbane. 1985/86.

9-56 Abdul Oacfir: PAKISTAN
v England. Lahore. 1987/88.

9-57 D E Malcolm: ENGLAND
v South Africa. The OwL 1 994.

9-65 n ManStharan: England
v SRI LANKA. The Oval 1998.

9-69 J Hi Pacefc INDIA v Australia.
Kanpur. 1959760.

9-83 Kapil Den INDIA v West Indies.
Ahmedabad. 1983/84.

9-86 Sarfraz Nawaz: Australia
v PAKISTAN. Melbourne. 197S/79-
9-95 J M Noriega: WEST INDIES
v IroSa. Port 0# Spain. 1970/71.

9-102 S P Gwk INDIA v West IntSes.
Kanpur. 1958/59.

BY NICK RlPPINGTON

“It’s a dream, an honour to
get all 10,” Kumble said after

h prng namal man nf th** rnatr-h
by referee Cammie Smith of the
West Indies. “I knew I bad to
bowl straight to be successful
cm tins wicket I kept a good fine
and it all worked out in the end.
I would like to take this wicket
with me wherever I go."

In his moment of glory, the
modest bowler paid tribute to
his teenage spinning partner
Harbhajan Singh and seamers
Ja vagal Srinath and Venkatesh
Prasad. “I don’t think I would
have got there without their
support,” he said.

Indian cricket fans cele-
brated with unconfined joy. The
moment KumM e to ok his, final
wicket to dismiss the Pakistan
captain Vfeszm Akram, many of
the 25,000 crowd at the Fer-
ozeshah Kotla ground broke
into an ecstatic dance, chanti-
ng “Ramble”, “Rumble". A
snake charmer played his tra-
ditional pipe outside the
ground as Indian officials car-
ried Kumble to the pavilion in
their arms. Hundreds of secu-
rity men fought to control the
hysterical crowd. Rumble’s
shirt was grabbed and tom by
fans clamouring to touch him.

India's emotional triumph
a gains t their great arch-rivals
came on a pitch that had to be
r^eired after it was vandalised
by Hindu Shiv Sena party ex-
tremists only a few weeks ago.
The extremists subsequently
called off a threat to disrupt the
tour only hours before the Pak-
istanis arrived.

“lb win a gains t. P akistan is
very special, n spectator Sanjay
Dhingra said. “Losing again st,
them really hurts and especially
if you lose a close one like in
Madras.”

The former England cap-
tain Colin Cowdrey who played
in Laker’s Test at Old Trafford
in 1956, when the Yorkshire
bom Surrey off-spinner took 19
Australian wickets in the
match, thanked Kumble for
providing a “great day for crick-
er with a performance that he
never imagined could happen
in the modem day game. Cow-

History maker India's Anil Kumble grabs a stomp alter claiming the last of 10 Pakistan wickets at the Ferozeshah Kolta stadium in New Delhi yesterday

drey, now Lord Cowdrey, said;
“I never thought it would hap-
pen again. It is so difficult to do.
Of course, you need to bowl bril-
liantly. But the chances of no
other Test match bowler taking
a wicket at the other end means
you need to stay lucky too.
[Laker’s Surrey spin twin! Tbcy
Lock also bowled beautifully at
Old H-afford but he only got one
wicket out of 20 - and that was
the one that I caught 1 never

thought an all-10 would happen
a gain. It is so unlikely, especially
for a leg-spinner against Pak-
istan, because they can play it
pretty wefl. It is a phenomenal
achievement I am particular-
ly pleased a leg-spinner has
done it It is a great day.”

Ray Illingworth, another for-
mer England captain, was also
at pains to point out the odds
stacked against anyone taking
all 10 wickets. “If s a tremen-

dous achievement at any level,
but to do it in an international
is almost unbelievable,” said the
ex-Yorkshire off-spinner “The
hard part is when you get to
number seven or eight I’ve
played in matches and taken
the first seven or eight wickets,
but those were in county
games. It’s not so bad when
your team-mates can take it a
bit easy at the other end, but
this was a Test match.”

Kumble finished with 21
wickets from two games -
seven wickets at Madras and 14
in this TfesL He now has 234
Test wickets from 51 matches,
having taken five wickets in an
innings 12 times and 10 in a
match on two occasions.

The odds were heavily
stacked against Pakistan when
they began their second in-
nings. But openers Saeed
Anwar and Shahid Afridi gave

the tourists a glimmer of hope
when they smashed 101 for the
first wicket in 98 minutes. Hum-
ble, however swung the match
India's way as Pakistan lost six
top order batsmen for the ad-
dition of 27 runs.

The rout began with a con-
tentious derision by the debu-
tant Indian umpire AV
Jayaprakash, who ruled Afridi
caught behind by wicket-keep-
er Nayan Mongia when the

ball appeared to have missed
the bat. Rumble's next tlelWcay
rapped Ijaz Ahmed on the full
and Jayaprakash, a former
first-class cricketer, once again
raised his finger
Fired up by the twin success,
Kumble went on to complete bis
amazing feat

h»dU but PaUsCan by 212 tana

252 and 339. R*n>Lm 1 72 and 20 1 .
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Everton bowed by buoyant Burton

EVERTON ENDED a goal
famine spanning more th an
six hours when Nick Barmby
gave them a first-half lead at
Pride Park yesterday but an in-
spired fightback fiy the home
side yielded two goals from
the Jamaican international,
Deon Burton. The victory lifts
Derby into sixth place, and
leaves Everton with only the
bottom three below them.

. Everton, already stretched
by injuries and suspensions.

By jon Pulley

Derby County 2

Everton 1

were disrupted by the loss from
their defence of David
Unsworth, who did not reap-
pear for the second half after
sustaining a calf strain. But
Derby, who had tended to-
overelaborate before the break,
as well as allowing their oppo-
nents too much time and space.

were an altogether different
proposition after it

They thoroughly deserved to
come out on top, their only dis-
appointment a hamstring izgury
to the striker Paulo Wanchope
that rules him out at least for
next Saturday’s FA Cup fifth-
round tie at Huddersfield.

It would be unfair to say that
Everton looked like relegation
material but their chronic in-
ability to produce a regular
stream of goals - they have

scored only 14 in 24 Premier-
ship 'matches - remains a
nugor concern. “Morale has
been good but it is important
that we don’t lose that," Ever-
ton' s manager Walter Smith,
said. “I was disappointed that
we did not hang on for a point
but, then again, we had three
18-year-olds on the field and it
is asking a lot Losing
Unsworth did not help, leaving
us short of power in the air.”
One of those youngsters, the

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prolific youth team marksman
Francis Jeffers, was making his
first start one month on from
his 19th birthday, coming into
tins match from a midweek
hat-trick in an FATfouth Cup tie
against Swindoa He made an
impressive beginning, playing
an important role in Bannby’s
goal, although the pace and ten-
sion of the occasion took their
toll in the later stages.

Derby enjoyed early pos-
session, going dose through
Francesco Baiano’s header and
Lee Carsley’s 25-yard drive,
but after 37 minutes they paid
for their tendency to make one
pass to many when Wancbqpe
lost possession at the edge of
the Everton box. The ball was
played forward to Ibrahima
Bakayoko, who was afforded
time to find Olivier Dacourt in
midfield. The Frenchman
threaded a pass to Jeffers, who
took the ball inside Igor Stimac
and was lining up a shot for
himself when Barmby spotted
a gap to Russell Houlfs left and
stole the ball from the young-
ster's feet to slot it home.

The goal was Everton’s first
in six hours and six minutes of
Premiership play but the reor-
ganisation required when
Unsworth stayed in the dress-
ing room after half-time dis-
turbed their rhythm. Michael
Ball dropped into the back
three and Mitch Ward, who
began as right wing-back, was
obliged to switch flanks as 18-
year-old Adam Farley stepped
out for his senior debut

Within five minutes of the
restart a much livelier and
more incisive Derby, encour-
aged by Smith to “get the ball
forward quicker”, had drawn
level Baiano found Wanchope
with a fine bafl from left to right
and the Costa Rican striker ad-
vanced towards the byline be-
fore crossing low and
awkwardly for Burton, who
made no mistake from half a
dozen yards.

Thereafter, Derby were
markedly the superior side,
creating a number of chances
and having a legitimate penalty
claim turned down by the ref-
eree Graham Foil after the ball
struck Dave Watson’s hand.
The introduction of Kevin
Harper and Darryl Powell with
15 minutes left gave them even
more rip and their reward
came with six minu tes left on
the dock.

Wanchope climbed to meet
Stefano Eranio’s corner with a
firm header that Thomas
Myhre could only palm into
the air A clutch of players
jumped for the loose ball but
Burton produced the biggest
leap to nod home his seventh
goal of the season.

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Unsworth (Farley, h-t): Ward. Hutchison.
Dacourt. Barmby: Ball: Jeffers. Bakayoko.
SotrodRites not imt Grant. Osier.
Jerens. Snronsen
Refom: G Pofi (Trtng).

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ton: Dunne. Wad. Dacourt
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RESTAURANT. A bat A nervous
journalist sips mineral water and
scans the foreign pages. He is
boning up on the imminent dvfl war
in East Timor. He knows little
about East Timor The man he is
about to interview however knows
a great (teal about East Timor And he has a famous
tendency to shout at people who are insufficiently
knowledgeable about political tyranny everywhere
in the world. In Indonesia or Hu-key or South Amer-
ica. Or indeed, in Washington.

The journalist shakily turns the pages. A drop of
perspiration crashes on to a map of Iraq’s no-fly zone.

This is not going to be easy. The man whose ar*
rival is imminent never gives interviews. He is fam-
ously irascible. He puts the frighteners on people.
He is a byword for aggression. The word “trucu-
lence'’ acquires new shape and meaning when be
is around. He will not talk about his plays. He will
not talk about his personal life He is unlikely to want
to chat about Sex and the City. Whatever you ask
him he win probably tell you to effoflj before bawling
you out fbrhaving gone to Thrkey on holiday in 1387.

Enter Harold Pinter through the revolving door
He says hello. A brisk conversation ensues about
whether fee restaurant will allow photographs in-
side thdr establishment They won't He tramps out
again, to be snapped further up the road, in the rain.
“Shall I come with you?” I ask, Pinter turns. “Why
' } don’t you stay here in the dry?” he says with a note
of genial contempt It is fee first sign that every-
thing is going to be all right

We sit at fee famous comer table in Le Caprice
and for two-and-a-half hours Pinter talks about him-
self We discuss his plays, his life his use of language,
his opinions of poets. Amazingly; politics enters fee
conversation only; as it were, organically. He never
shows fee least inclination to rant Nobody could
be more charming more forthcoming, more genial
and (oddfy) more British. He is courteous even under
provocation....

“Tell me. Sir Harold...” I began. “Tm not Sir
Harold,” he interrupted. “I turned down the knight-
hood. I wrote Mr Major a very courteous letter;
thanked him and said I was unable to accept such
an honour from a Conservative government”
Whoops. Later; I muddled up some details from The
Caretaker and The Birthday Party. He didn’t
mind. I corrected him when he quoted some lines
from Ttenayson's “Tlfemus”, then fijundl was wrong.
He affected not to care. When we ordered food, fee
conversation hit a Pin teres que stride, as he dis-
covered a small tomato salad dish on the menu:

HP: I think Fll just have... fee cod.

JW No starter? —

HR I'd like a... mixed tomatoes and basfl.

JW. Mixed tomatoes and basil?

HR Yes.

JW Tb start off wife?

HP:Yea (Pause). And I won’t have anything else
wife fee cod

Silence.

JW Tou’re sure it’s a starter?

HR Yes. (Pause). You can have it as a starter

JW You could have the plum tomatoes and basil
galette, which are in fee proper starters menu...

HR But I don’t want fee tomatoes and basil
galette...

He had it seemed no private agenda, no urgent
rodomontade about the fresh wave of bom b i ngs in
Iraq. But he wanted to dear up something. Last Sun-
day a newspaper profile of Tom Stoppard had trot-
ted out an old chestnut feat irritated him: how Pinter
once tried to enlist Stoppard's support to get the
Comedty Theatre renamed the Pinter Theatre,
and how Stoppard had amusingly replied. “Why don’t
you phangp- your name to Harold Comedy?”

Tfrng^^happmvyl.Prnterhas written to complain.
“It’s totally without foundation. Sure, I bad five plays
put on there since 1990, and Bill Kenwright made
A joke and said *Why don’t they call it fee Pinter
7heatre?’ But now I find myself landed with this
extraordinary reputation.” His brow darkened
“There’s an illness in fee press in this country. To
quote a stupid little tale like feat, without any at-

That nice Mr Pinter

t

tempt to confirm there was any truth in it whatso-
ever is onjytoo common. They feel they can saywbal
they like just for fee heQ of it” Actually, I said, it’s
more to do with the journalistic habit of hoarding
up apocryphal stories, like squirrels storing acorns.

We talked about fee critical reception of his play
Betrayal which was premiered at the I^yttelton in
1978 (wife Michael Gambon, Daniel Massey and
Penelope Wilton), was later filmed (wife Ben Kings-
ley, Jeremy Irons and Patricia Hodge) and is now
back at fee National wife Anthony Calf, Douglas
Hodge and Imogen Stubbs. Though now held to be
one of bis finest worts, a subtle cafs-cradle of mutual
betrayals, working backwards in time so that the
audience always knows fee reason for the under-
currents of malice and mistrust beneath the dia-
logue, it was rubbished on its first outing. Michael
Billington, later to be Pinter’s biographer and
beartiestaufeenticatoi; wrote: “What distresses me
is the pitiMly fein strip of human experience it ex-
plores and its obsession with the tiny ripples on the
stagnant pond of bourgeois-affluent life”, and
suggested feat Pinter had betrayed his talent Had
Pinter been hurt?

Tm never hurt" he said, smiling. “I was hurt
just once, in 1958, when The Birthday Party, my first
professionally produced play, was destroyed. I
went out at 7.30am, to get the morning papers, went
to a cafg and had a cup of tea and read feem. They

were alL .. each one was worse than the last It was
a quite an ugly experience, that early-morning read
in the I thought I might give .fee whole thing

up and go and write a novel But my wife at the time,

Vivien [Merchant], said, 'Come on, you've had bad
notices as an acton puD yoursetftogefeer\ and Dart
aid McWhixmie at the BBC commissioned me to
write A Slight Ache. But it was very good for me to
have such a beginning. Since then I’ve never been
hurt by what's been said by critics."

Betrayal received one notice feat thrilled Pin-
tec It was a private note from the great Samuel Beck-
ett,- who was Pinter's friend, drinking buddy,
correspondent and inspiration from when they met
in Paris in 1962, until his death in 1989. The note
refers to the final scene in this back- to -front play,
when the affair between Emma and Jerry is just
starting:: “That last first look in fee shadows, after
all those in fee light to come, wrings the heart”

By John Walsh

“I think that’s better than the whole play put to-
gether” said Pinter fondly. “We used to meet, when-
ever he was in London, whenever I was in Paris. I
sent him all my plays.

“I sent him one called Silence which we were
putting tm at the. Aldwych. He wrote back and said,
T like it very much, but if I were you Td look at the
third speech at the bottom of page nine. I looked
at it and thought, TVhat? Thane’s nothing wrong with
it Perfectly good speech.’ The play went into re-
hearsaL 1 went away for a few days, got back, rang
Peter [Hall, the director] and he said, It's going very
wdL There’s just this one speech at the bottom of. ..’
And I said, ‘Don’t teD me. Just cut it out’."

You can’t easily imagine Pinter taking instruc-
tions from anyone. Though his legendary truculence,
aggression, etc are on hold today he radiates a hum
of violence, a low-frequency rumble of hard energy.
Now 68, he looks 52. His intense brown eyes
scrutinise you fiercely. His voice is an odd hybrid,
plummy-stentorian, and tends to come down on
certain words like a stamping foot He is phenom-
enally masculine. His conversation is salted with
obscenities. He likes facts and vivid memories. He
rarely uses abstract nouns when speaking, just as
he steers clear of tender emotions in his drama.

His plays are famously filled with threat and men-
ace and the lurking violence that lies in families, mar-
riages and political systems. IBs later poems (as
collected in Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
I945-199S) impersonate the voices of CIA aggres-
sors wife triumphant, obscene smugness. It’s odd
to think that this noble pacifist, this former con-
scientious objector; this dove who would like to
arraign President Clinton for the bombing of Khar-
toum, seems himself to be an embodiment of
toughness, pu gilism, attitude, intimidation.

Haveyou ever; I asked, been punched in fee face?
Or have you punched someone in fee face? Or were
you a bully at school? Or were you intimidated by
someone else? Have you discovered a capacity for
violence in yourself?

He wasn’t fee least bit fazed. “I have the feeling
that lots of people have wanted to punch me in fee
face for a very tong time,” he laughed. “Not theatre
critics, but political journalists and people in other
spheres. I think they find me a pain in fee arse.”

Seriously, though, I said. And he told me a story
that may, or may not, explain fee source of his
commitment

T was 28. There used to be a bar on Sloane Square
Station, and I went to get the tube to Chiswick. Itrere
was this chap at a table and I heard him say “Lis-
ten - fee thing is - Hitler was quite right to do what
he did to fee Jews. In fact he should have gone fur-
then” He was some City man, a bit pissed- So I went
to fee bar; ordered a half of Whitbread and wandered
what I should do. The man with him said, T think
that’s a load of rubbish’, and I said, involuntarily,
‘Yeah - it’s a toad of balls.’ And fee bloke looked at
me and said, ‘I suppose you’re a filthy yid yourself’
So I said, *Say that again’, and he said, T suppose
you’re a filthy yid.’ And I whacked him” - Pinter
drove his fist into the palm of his left hand wife a
sharp report that made fee restaurant jump. “I re-
member fee blood spurting down his left cheek. I
said, You shouldn’t go around saying that kind of
thing’, and picked up my drink, whereupon he hit
me. He came right off fee back of fee bar and hit
me straight in the face. It happened 40 years ago
and I remember it as if it were yesterday, fee tables
and chairs all over fee place. I was very fit in those
days, so you could say I overwhelmed him. I went
a little crazy.

“Anyway, fee stationmaster came in wife a
policeman and the fight was stopped. But then the
man himself came up to me, blood all ova* his shirt,
and said, ‘Let me ask you one question. Are you a
Jew?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, “Well I can understand
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Woodhead’s future

Sir, Would it not be regrettable if
Mr Wbodhead, whose recent
pronouncement about sixth'
formers and sex was so
uncharacteristically liberal (“Sex
between teachers and pupils can
be ‘educative'- schools chief”, 6
February), were to be sacked for it,
rather than for his primitive and
simp listic c oncep t of education?
CHRISTOPHER R SHUTE
Education Now
Polesvx>rth,Sta^brd^iire

Sir: I was profoundly shocked to
read of Chris Woodhead’s
suggestion that a relationship
between a teacher and a sixth
former should not necessarily lead
to the teacher’s dismissal

The requisite secrecy and lies of

such an affair cause
unquestionable emotional
damage, such as an inability to

trust or to build a more
conventional relationship. I know
because several years ago I sawa
classmate suffer in such a
situation. I fear she will never be
able to sustain a balanced, loving
relationship due to one of a
minority who believe themselves
above the moral code of the
teaching profession.

This profession relies on trust
and authority to function, and to
allow one who abuses this tacit
contract between parents and
teachers to remain within teaching
is unthinkable. Teacher-pupil
relationships rarely have anything
to do with the love and care of
another person; more often they
concern selfishness, insecurity
and power To my mind it would be
extremely dangerous to convey
the message that such
relationships are acceptable,
especially within institutions that
are supposed to protect young
people, not prey upon them.

EJ GRAFTON
Durham

Sin Following your front page
headline publication of the report
on Chris Wbodhead's comment,
the Chief Inspector of Schools has
been widely reported elsewhere to
have claimed in his defence that
this was not his “real view”.

This surely calls Mr Wbodhead's
honesty and professionalism into
question. He should tender his
resignation forthwith.

BERNEE PARDON
Dmycott, Derbyshire

Sin If a football coach can lose his
job fora rather innocuous
rehashing of a standard i> 'tfious
concept, can the Chief Insp«^*or of
Schools, in bis drive to raise
standards, get away with an
apparent condoning of sex
between teachers and pupils? I bet
I'm disappointed-
TOM HARDY
London NI

Blinkered economy

Sir It is now well recognised that
in many service industry areas
there is overcapacity (“How is it
that all these gloomy
businessmen are employing more
people?", 4 February).

There are too many shops,
getting to be too many complexes,
too many pub chains expanding
simultaneously. If you overexpand
capacity it is not surprising that
surveys show gloom, even after
adjustment The jam is spread
more thinly, sales and profits fell
and depression takes a hold.

Add to that the continual
surveys telling consumers that
prices are too high and you must
expect consumer resistance.

It is getting to an Asian state of
mindless overexpansion without a
rational look at markets.

Look at the population figures.

In 2001 there will be 1.8 million
fewer 20 to 29-.vear-olds than in
1991. a 20 per cent fall in 10 years.
There is growth in the 30 to 59
bracket, but virtual stability in the
numbers of OAPs.

All these new service
industries, shops, pubs,
multiplexes, seem not only to
target younger customers,
but need a young and vibrant
workforce, and both areas
are declining.

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Schools off key

Sin The pother about musical'
instruments in schools (leader, &
February) entirely misses the'
point Music is uniquely among the

Moscow In Winter No 1: Pensioners meet in Sokolniki Park at 1pm every Sunday to dance to music piped over the public address Andy Johnstone

More alarming is the apparent
indifference of the business
community to population chang e
Over the next 20 years the
numbers of workers aged 20 to 44
declines, with an increase in older
workers. But the numbers of
pensioners and the very elderly
escalate rapidly. There is virtually

no sign that business has begun to

realise that over the next 20 years
service industries needs to make
major adjustments.

All one can see is a set of
developers who apparently
operate with a herd-like mentality
and are locked in the past
RE CRUM
Norwich

Lottery winner

Sin I am one of those consultants
- a slightly overweight cat - who
have made a killing, as David
Benedict describes it out of the
Lottery (“Lottery with violence”,

3 February).

“Without a doubt, the Lottery is
the biggest disaster ever to befell
arts funding in this country." Hang
on - if that's a disaster; Fm all for it

My colleagues and I have been
consistently astonished that so
many have not grasped the simple
truth: for the first time in recorded
history a British government a
Conservative one no less, decided
to hand out money just like that
The money hasn’t always been
handed out very well but the
Lottery has hardly been a disaster.
What’s disastrous about giving
money to a theatre to repair a
leaking roof?

Things obviously could have
been done better; to put it mildly, in
terms of organisation and
planning, but David Benedict's
proposition that the Lottery “has
been catastrophic” is patently
ridiculous. The arts, like the health
service, are under-funded - that's
the real problem. If we are
thinking of catastrophes and
disasters, I'd say the cockup over
the Opera House in Cardiff was
one, the Lottery-funded horror
going up in its place another; and
Lottery-funded banal or

inadequate design, or the
Millennium Commissioners’

■ Dome, or the failure to support a
splendid theatre. These are
failures of imagination, a common
failing everywhere.

By the way, our killing as fat cats
has been a rather modest one: just
a few mice, Td say.

IAN JONES

Chadwick Jones Associates
London SW6

Irish “obsession”

Sir: The Ietterabout Oliver
Cromwell (5 February) illustrates
exactly why there is still an "Irish
problem”. With respect, the Irish
are still so obsessed by the “evils”
of British colonialism that it seems
to prevent them from moving on.

Contrast their attitude with that
of India which had British rule for
a similar length of time but where
all buta tiny minority have long
since given up blaming the British
for anything perceived to be wrong
in their counity.

This obsession with the
admitted wrongs done to Ireland

Sin The Grammar School/
High School system operates
in this part of Warwickshire
and until recently most of the
High School children have had
to carry their books with them
wherever they went (“School
bags”, 3 February). The
Grammar School children had
proper lockers.

As a teacher of singing, I
have found that many of my
students who attend High
Schools have difficulty in
standing up properly during
their lessons, whereas none of
my students attending
Grammar Schools have with
this problem.

ALMA BRIGHT CLARKE
Studfey, Warwickshire

Sir: My attention has been
drawn to a piece in your 27
January issue (People and
Business) following Sir

300 odd years ago blinds many but
not all Irish people to other issued
and the constant fomenting of this
old wound largely accounts for the
ambivalent attitude of too many to
terrorist activities carried out in
the name of Irish patriotism.

■Your correspondent cannot be
allowed to get away with his
statement that we “honour the
butcher” as if we were happily
celebrating Cromwell’s massacres
in Ireland. When we honour the
memory of Cromwell we are
looking at the way he became a
symbol of the end of absolute
monarchy and laid the foundations
for a stronger nation. We .dearly
tend to overlook his excesses,
particularly those in Ireland, but
we must not judge the killings by
20th century standards but rather
look at the age when they
occurred. I do not seek to minimise
these wrongdoings, merely to put
them into context

If we British had the same
blinkered approach as your
correspondent we would be
constantly harassing the Ita lians
for the activities of the Andent

Romans -indeed, the Welsh might
like to make them own case against
the Irish raiders after the
departure of the Romans.

ADRIAN SIMMONDS
Enfield, MidtSese x

Sir ffistory may indeed be bunk.
Finnen 6’Cuinn-De Twits
conception of the capture of
Drogheda in September 1649
certainly is.

Most intriguing of all are his
assertions that Cromwell was
guilty of “genocide” and
condemned himself by his words.

Genocide is the deliberate
killing of a nationality or ethnic
group. The Drogheda garrison was
made up of a hotch-potch of
nationalities and raider the
command of a renegade English
Cavalier - Sir Arthur Aston.

There is little, if any,
contemporary evidence of
indiscriminate killing of civilians.
Accusations of wholesale
massacre of women and children
orchestrated by Cromwell appear
no earlier than the zmd-19th
centuiy as an invention in support

IN BRIEF

Patrick Brown’s appointment
to our board. Far from being
lambasted by regulators,
Thameslink has received
considerable praise for its
efforts to improve on the
railway inherited from RR.
Tfaose efforts have seen trains
refhrhisbed.a major
development to improve
stations and security on the
Wimbledon Loop, additional
trains in service and, for many
regular users, even fare
reductions. The trains are
modern and reliable end by
no stretch of the imagination
could they be described
as crumbling.

CHRIS MOYES
Executive Director
The Go-Ahead Group pic
NeiocasUe upon Tyne

Sir Fancy suggesting delaying
the menopause (report, 2
February). Many of us have not
been impressed with periods.
Now we are of a certain age
and toe hormones are going
astray again many can’t wait
for the whole process to finish
itself off

Periods hurt and there is no 1
tax advantage in having them,
with VAT at 17.5 per cent on ail
sanitary protection.

I note it was a man in yonr
article who was enthusing
about this research.

ANI HARRIS
High Peak, Derbyshire

Sin In her letter <4 February),
Professor Elizabeth Stuart
introduces us to the term
“disabled theology”. Is this an
example o f disabled English?
JOHN TRETHEWEY
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion

subjects on the curriculum, the .
least popular: The reason is the .
Government’s failure to supply

enough hatf-decentmusfo teachers :
able (and allowed) to engage the
latent enthusiasm of their students.

Until Mr Blunkett addresses this,
it scarcely matters wheth erhe

of Irish nationalistic polemics. As
for Cromweffs awn words, I quote
from hisletter of 12 September
1649: “I offered mercy to the
garrison of Ibeedagh (sic) in
sending the Governor (Aston), a
summons before I attempted the
taking of it, which being refused
brought their evil upon tbem_”

It was Aston, with his
enstomaryrashness, who put the
lives of the town's people and
garrison at peril by attempting to
fight off 12,000 troops with 3,000
poorly equipped men.

The claim that Cromwell wrote
of burning alive “near 1,000 Irish”
is nonsense.

%ur correspondent would do
better to turn his vitriol upon eight
centuries’ worth of murderous
efforts of English, then British
monarebs and their agents to
impose themselves on the people
of Ireland, with particular
attention to the policies of King
Charles L

Oliver Cromwell knew how to
deal with him.

DAVID E EVANS
Montgomery, Powys

Lovely Lewisham

Sin I was sorry to read John
Walsh's description of Lewisham
as the “seriously nasty end of
south London” (Comment, 4
February). The many thousands of
Londoners who live, work or study
here would disagree.

The area is East becoming one of
the safest and most popular places
to live in London. Thu don’t have to
take my word for it The
Independent agrees'. Last
December; under the headline “No
longer so Cheap but increasingly
cheerful" you report “Lewisham
has arrived ... in Lewisham,
properties are sold within hours”.

Perhaps John Walsh would
appreciate a tour of what The
Independent calls “Lewisham's
forgotten treasures”. I would be
happy to show him round.
Councillor DAVID SULLIVAN
Leader

Lewisham Council
London SE6

le> s ° n

bagp ipes. Electronic keyboards and
computers will not, of themsehresi
make music lessons creative.
MALCOLM ROSS
Partington, Devon

Sin Your article deals only with the
minor Issue of instruments
available in our school?. The mqjor
issue is that talented
mathematicians, scientists or - : .
linguists will receive their tuition
free whereas promising musicians
will ba^ to pay for it They often -
have to request to be excused from
other lessons for instrument .
tuition, and have to catch up
missed work and often attend -
school concert rehearsals, good PR
for the schools, in their own time.
ROGER GARRA3T
Kibworih Beauchamp, : •
Leicestershire

The sitcom blues

Sir ITVs recruitment of a “US
sitcom guru” (report, 4February) is
their latest insult to home-grown
comedy writers and an implicit
a dmissi on of the failure of the ’ . '

network's own commissioning staff,

Britain has a proud tradition of
original comedies driven by one or
two writers, some of them even
transferring successfully to the
home of “guru” Tom Carsey. In
addition, while the US may produce
some excellent programmes, it
also produces an ocean of dross. It
is our fortune that we only see the .
few shows which float to toe top of
this vast reservoir of effluent

Frankly ii is scandalous that,
instead of beingable to trust their
own judgementand feed new
British writers a few hundred
pounds of seed com monqy to
develop an initial script ITV
companies prefer to let our ideas rot
in favour of spending a fortune on
patronising, second-hand advice.

I could, at toe drop of a hat
produce a list of new home-grown . •
writers with original ideas and
genuine ability, all of whom have
proved themselves in live comedy
radio, or smaller scale TV Last
year, at erne of London's highest-
profile fringe venues, I organised
an evening of new sitcoms. Nota
single commissioning editor came.
By contrast I wonder how many
expenses-paid junkets to Los
Angeles it took to sign MrCarsey
SIMON HARDEMAN
London E8

Feeling the heat

Sin The failure to investigate frilly
the extent of benefits fraud (“MPs
defy Darling over benefit fraud”, 5
February) prompts me to report
another instance.

My wife received her winter fuel
allowance, a cheque for £20, last
month, as the only member of our
household qualifying; a week later I
received £20 on toe same terms.

My phone call to the Benefits
Agency met with the response that
its computer must have foiled to
detect that we live at the same
address (we have been here for 12
years); and that I could keep the
money or return it - “some do
return it ”.

PETER HILL

Ibnioorth-m-Arden, Warwickshire

We’ll meet again

Sir: All Christians also implicitly
believe in reincarnation since
Christ, himseff re-incarnated after
his crucifixion. “He died, was buried '
and on the third day, rose again.”

If that isn't a form of re-
incarnation, what is?

From a sentient being presently •
residing in the body of. „

MARK CUNNINGHAM
London SE23

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A comer of the Arab world where cricket once held sway

I HAVE received many letters of
tribute to the late King Hussein of
Jordan, some of which are suffi-
ciently out of the ordinary to merit
reprinting in this space.

From Sir Norbert FantayJe-
Pidgeon

Sir. in all the obituary notices de-
voted to the late King Hussein of
Jordan, I am sad not to see any
mention of his abiding love of the
game of cricket. At a time when
British influence is at an all-time
low in the Middle East, it is salut-
ary to remember that at least in (me
corner of toe Arab world, toe
gentlemanly code of cricket still
held sway

I was out there for many years
as HM Ambassador to one or other
of the little sheikhdoms there - 1
could never remember which, and

was always returning to the wrong
base! - and often had intimate
talks with King Hussein in which
he would talk about his cricketing
days in England raid how bitterly
he rued not being able to play the
game more often in Jordan.

“I was a very useful leg spinner,
Norbert,” he used to say. “I was
known as Wily Hussein at my pub-
lic school and once even got a hat-
trick. I remember writing home to
my father and telling him I had got
ahat-trickat cricket, but he did not
understand”

“He did not know what cricket
was?” I asked him,

“He did not know what a hat
was ” smiled Hussein. Later he
said: “Norbert, do you think you
could perhaps get together a spe-
cial S3 of British ambassadors to
play against my XI? Goodness

knows, you have enough diplo-
mats doing nothing out here!”

I thought it was avery good idea,
but the Foreign Office vetoed it
They thought it would be most un-
fortunate if toe British XI were- to
beat toe Sag’s XI. They thought it
would be equally unfortunate if we
lost to an Arab side. T sometimes
think that history might have been

very different if cricket had estab-
lished a toehold in the Middle East

From Lady Stowena Dashwood
Sir; I can vouch for the sentiments
of toe above letter. I spent several
summers in Jordan following my
husbaaiwhovmanarchaeofogisl
and several other summers fol-
lowing other archaeologists who
were not my husband, and I recall
once being in the depths of the
desert all alone except for the

MILES

Kington

' These romantic sons
of the desert promptly
took off their robes,
revealing white flannels’

workers on the dig, when out of
nowhere swept a marvellous ret-
inue of men on camels. They dis-

mounted, and the leader intro-
duced himself to me as King Hus-
sein, out with his men looking for
a private spot to play cricket.

These romantic sons of the
desert promptly took off their

robes, revealing white flannels be-
neath, and set about a fiercely
contested, 40-over one-day matnh
Never shall I forget the sightof the
ca me ls being positioned as sight
screens, or toe imposing if diminu-
tive figure of the Ring sticking
three swords in the sand as the
wickets. Lawrence of Arabia can
hardly have seen a stranger s igh t
I sometimes think that history
might have been very different if
cricket had replaced warfare as the
Arab national sport

From Mordechal Beyan

Sir, I heartily concur with all toe

above. I too was in the Jordanian
desert one day- though on a dif-
ferent mission, as I was an Israeli

spy - when all at once a glittering
bmy of camel-riders appeared

from nowhere and surrounded me

I was resigning myself to a bullet

vn the head or at very least 20 years

in an Amman jail when toe leader;
who was none other than King Hus-
sein, revealed that thev

one short.

“Ten me. O traveller,” he asked.

m the courteous tones for which he
was world famous, “would you
care to join us to make up one of
ournumber whose camel has gone
taroame miles bad, Doyoubowl

It so happened that when I
joined Mossad I had undergone an
intensive period otendk*

ium utility seam bowlec It was a
most enjoyable game, and we won
by three wickets.

“WeU played, sir,” said the King
to meafterwards. “Ihad noidea toe
Jews had a talent for ball games,”
iou know that I am. I
gasped.

; „ f 3t Arabs have some talent for
intelligence-gathering too," he
smifed. “Perhaps we should play

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An ‘educative’ event
- but will the
lesson be learned?

A SEXUAL relationship between a teacher and a 16- or
17-year-old pupfl can indeed be “educative” for all con-
cfcnied, as Chris Woodhead, the Chief Schools Inspector,
said. It can be educative in the sense that both bank and
burglar can learn something from a robbery If that were
all he had meant, of course, he would not be in so much
trouble, and the story would not have been on the front
page of this newspaper last Saturday.

What he m eant was that something positive could come
out of such relationships, and it was on this that he was
forced to go back yesterday- Which was inevitable, because
the man in charge of maintaining standards of taarfring
should not, as a matter of policy, express any thing other
than prim disapproval of teacher-pupil relationships.

But, though it is for others to say it, what he said remains
true. Of course, sex with pupils under the age of 16 is both
wrong and a criminal offence, and Mr Woodhead prefaced
his controversial words by sayin g so. As for sex with pupils
aged 16 or 17, he said that adults “have a responsibility to
those who are younger than us and therefore it isn't a good
idea at all 0 . He should have gone further, and said that the
presumption must be that it is a sacking offence. But he
was quite right to suggest that each case should be judged
individually and that an erring teacher should not be “auto-
matically drummed out of the profession”.

In this, and, despite his disclaimer that he had “no prob-
lem” with the Government’s Bill to ban sex between
teachers and pupils, his explosive comments perform a
valuable service by drawing attention to a bad law in the
making. The Sexual Offences Bill received its second
reading in the House of Commons a week ago. In response
to a spasm of anti-gay prejudice against the equal age of
consent for homosexual men, the Home Secretary foolishly
introduced provisions against the “abuse of trust" in
cases where older people have responsibility for 16- or 17-
year-olds, whether of the same or the opposite sex. These
would make it a criminal offence for someone in a posi-
tion of authority to have sex with a young person in their
care in four cases: youth detention centres, local author-
ity care, nursing care and full-time education.

In this. Jack Straw is going too for. As his former Home
Office ministea;Ahm Michael, pointed out lastyeai; it would
mean it was lawful for teachers to many their pupils but -
not to have sex with them. The liberal Democrats should
be congratulated for standing up for liberal values. In the
Commons last week only Alan Beith and Evan Harris
raised doubts, pointing out for example that the Bill win
not criminalise doctor-patient relationships, quite sensibly
leaving these to disciplinary proceedings.

Mr Woodhead is guilty, therefore, of an error of judge-
ment And his attempt to wriggle out of what he said is

unappealing. These were not “private” comments; they
were addressed to 200 student teachers - precisely his tar-
get audience. But this is not a case like that of Glenn
Hoddle. Fbr one thing, this is a subject that raises a gen-
uine question about his competence as head of Ofeted (and
it is a subject upon which, incidentally, the Prime Minis-
ter should undoubtedly pronounce). But there is another
crucial difference: Mr Woodhead, unlike Mr Hoddle, has
done well at the job he Is paid to do. Teaching unions do
not Eke him because he said that 15,000 of their members
were not good enough. Whether or not this was an under-
estimate or an exaggeration, what really matters is his
drive against what are usually described, simplistically, as
“trendy” teaching methods. The reality is more complex,
in that be has overseen a systematic approach to raising
teaching standards, drawing on the best of both traditional
and modern methods. He should be allowed to complete
this welcome revolution, while In future pausing to think
before he opens his mouth.

The reality of racism in
a multicultural nation

THE COMMISSION for Racial Equality should be praised
fbr compiling the figures, which we report today, showing
that more white people than black and Asian people suf-
fer racial attacks. These figures are bound to be misused
by the CRE’s opponents, who will overlook the fact that
the relatively small numbers of ethnic-minority citizens in
country are still four to eight times more likely than
whites to be subjected to violence with a racial motive.

It must be evident, not least from the police handling
of Stephen Lawrence’s murder; that black and Asian
people have some way to go before they achieve full
equality of status in Britain. And that a reformed and more
ethnically balanced police force is an important means to
that end. Not that we should be too pessimistic; despite

all this, race relations in the United Kingdom are in a better
state than in many other European countries.

But it is important in building a society free of racial
prejudice, to acknowledge that prejudice is not a one-way
street Racially motivated violence should be unequivocally
condemned, whatever its source and underlying causes.
Racial attacks motivated by a sense of grievance among
an under-privileged minority, against a majority that is seen
as dominant and hostile, are as unacceptable as straight-
forward anti-immigrant violence on the part of whites.

Equally, however, today’s figures underline the folly of
the Government’s decision to malm racially motivated vio-
lence a more serious offence than other kinds of violence.
The CRE’s research shows how difficult it is to define racial
motivation. If a white person robs a black person, the vic-
tim may see the attack as rariaffy motivated, and vice versa.
Hone gang of youths beats up another gang because they
“look different”, does it make it worse if their skins are
different colours, rather than their football scarves?

Mr Woodhead’s crass comment
exposes an education system at war

)DAX IN anticipation of the Gov-
ument’s inevitable introduction of
■ ftmmar and syntax hour; we will
udy neologisms, starting with to
oddle (vb. intrans), meaning to
teak wantonly on a sensitive subject
such a way as to raise Cain. Note

so - TOwdhraded"(colltrans):tobe
Uoried for a Hoddling offence when
e real reason for antipathy lies

Chris Woodhead, the chief inspec-
r of schools, underwent a major
tack of the Hoddles when he re-
loaded to a question about teachers

nbaiking on relationships with tear

ipfls with the view that these could
i “experiential and educative”, a de-
xiption that made them sound like
suitable adefition to the National Cur-
culum. TheirouyofMrWoodbead's
idden lapse into edu-jargon will not
« tost on those whom be has robustty
tacked for importing waffly relat-
ism into schooling.

But people are rarely just the sum
tal of their ideological views, or
ither if, like John Redwood, they are,

e reserve a specially vibrant Bntish
staste for them. Pew of us lead repy-
m H - erifvmc AfVl flUT

iKUVk-Ss I U wwuiv« ■ — *

als are entirely coherent with one
ither It is far from uncommon for

ii-uaun muuu _

e the most vociferous defend-
larriage, while former scarlet

. «U/M,Kna nhnnt the

or sexual continence in the
jt generation.

the stentorian imposer of
“ > a certain con-

Wbodhouse did not mean what he said.
He messed up. “If I had known what
was going to happen, I would have put
it differently, ” he said later; as people
do when the foil consequences of
having Hoddled hit home.

As it was, he found himself faced
in public with a question on which he
knew that he was vulnerable, having
had a liaison with a former female
pupfl some years ago. Both deny that
their relationship was improper when
she was at school, but their closeness
was noticed and disapproved of by
staff. Before there is an affair; there
is the pre-affair - the thrilling dis-
covery of mutual attraction and in-
ordinate pleasure in each other's
company. That can be just as dis-
ruptive an influence in the classroom
or the workplace as a fully fledged
sexual ffing.

Mr Woodhead was thus placed in
an invidious position. If he said that
teachers should beep their paws off
their pupils, he was open to charges
of hypocrisy. If he said otherwise, he
was on the wrong side of the rales of
every LEA and the private sector

My hunch is that the question was
asked by a trainee teacher in the
knowledge that it would cause prob-
lems fora man who erijeys (and that
really is the right word) demonic sta-
tus among state-sector teachers. The
more they loathe him, the more Mr
VPbodhead is convinced that he is
doing a good job. Such is the de-

student relations. Of course, Mr

ation system at war with itself, with
the nation's pupils forcibly enKsted as
the poor bloody infantry.

But you cannot be the fearsome un-

Anne

mcelvoy

He is being pilloried for
a Hoddle-like offence
when the real reason for
antipathy lies elsewhere

verier of malpractice and ineptitude
and not be prepared to be unveiled
yourself. The Chief Inspector; having
dished out some harsh and judge-
mental words oyer time, seems to
have been entirely unprepared fbr his
past to be used against him now. Sit-
ting in judgement on others does
tend to make people rather cavalier
about their own weaknesses.

I have no doubt that Mir Woodhead’s
comments wfil lead to a concerted
campaign to get rid of him. I am
equally sure that many of his enemies
will gun for him for all the wrong rea-
sons. At Ofeted, hehas pressed home
the long-overdue message that stan-
dards in Britain’s schools must rise
and that the culture of excuses in the
classroom, the unions and the LEAs
must end. It is pure malevolence to
suggest that he should not continue

in his post because he put his foot so
squarely in his mouth on the subject
of teacher-pupil relations.

Beyond the ad hominem argu-
ment, the more consequential de-
bate about which relationships are
improper and at what age is about to
be erupt anew, thanks to the Age of
Consent (Amendment) Bill which
seeks to make illegal sexual relations
between those in positions of “direct

responsibfltty”wi^

age of 18.

Tony Blair is committed by his
manifesto to equalising the age of
heterosexual and homosexual con-
sent fine. That is what we expect an
enli ghten ed centre-left government to
do. But it does demand rather more
bravery than Mr Blair has so far
shown. He got a sticky ride in the
Lords and from concerned back-
benchers about the status of 16-1B-
year-oid boys. So for; so predictable.
He should have pressed on regardless,
saying that it is up to the children’s
homes, the young offenders’ units and
the schools to enact the common-
sensical rule that staff should not sleep
with thar charges by making it a sack-
able offence to do so.

But the Prime Minister is acutely
aware that a lot of middle England is
twt as socially liberal as New Labour;
and the polls remain heavily a gains t
him on this sensitive matter. So a pan-
icky amendment was added to the Bill,
stating that sex between 16-year-olds
is all right, whereas sex between

sranecategxiesafp«5)leova-foeage
tfl8andsomeifrcffl7-yearofcisw8h
whom they are “in a position of trust"
is not acceptable.

The idea is to create an equivalent
ofWittgenstem’s duck-rabbit, a draw-
ing that can look like one animal or tiie
other; depending on the viewer’s per-
spective. The Age of Consent duck-
' rabbit is intended to sound libera} to
Sympathetic audiences, while intro-
ducing an. illiberal clause at the end
to satisfy critics. The result will be un-
workable, productive of anomalies
and tensions. The specification of
categories goes far beyond the reach
of conventional consent legislation in
democracies- It is open to challenge
on the grounds that criminal law
should be dear enough for individuals
to know whether or not it applies to
them. It should certainly avoid the use
' of terms or categories such as
“positions of trust”, which are open to
differing interpretations.

How broadly is the status of trust
defined? Can a care worker sleep with
a young man in another home? If a 16-
year-old male is in need of protection
from some adults, then he is dearly
not considered to be an adult himself,
in which case, he should not be con-
sidered mature enough to have legal
sexual intercourse at ail Not for the
first time, this Government has been
seduced by lust for legislation and is
seeking to enshrine in law things
that should be left to non-statutory
arrangements.

The belated fuss about Mr Wood-
head's oH flame is a reminder that the
intersection of professional respon-
sibility and sexual attraction remains
a minefield through which we should
tread with the utmost caution and fore-
thought The last thing it needs is the
destructive detonation of a bad law.

DHEAD, the Chief
of Schools, has
a something of a
ion. Indeed, the
mpetuosity of his

J fha

IN TRE furore over Glens
Hoddle, the Prime Minister
h«rri|y distinguished himself.

But this time Tony Blair has the

opportunity to look b efore he

is one of his vntues

nisguided
between
tils have

could be terminal damage on
is own position.

Mail on Sunday

carefully just what critics have
popped out of the woodwork to
demand Mr Wbodhead’s resig-
nation- Are they calling for his

head because they are
gnardians of the nation’s
morals? Or are these people

Monitor

ALL THE NEWS OF THE WORLD

The Sunday newspapers on whether sex
between teachers and students is 1 educative 1

quiet to seize their opportunity

to deliver the coup depnice to
a powerful enemy?

The Sundew Times

THEBE IS a duty of care be-
tween teacher and pupil that

should not be abused, and
Chris Woodhead as a public
official is a custodian of those
values. On the other hand, 16
is the age of consent and affairs
at colleges a&d universities

between teachers and taught
are as old as the institutions
themselves. Woodfaead’s re-
marks were ill-considered, but
not a hanging offence.

The Observer

IF TEACHERS were allowed to
have sex with pupils between
16 and 18, then heaven knows
what mega-creeps mightn’t be
attracted Into the sixth-form
teaching posts. On-the-make
teachers could always say
they'd give eadtra-good marks to

those pupils who agreed to
have sex with them and
extra-low ones to pupils who
didn’t As for the idea that the
process might be “educative",

as Chris Woodhead said, should

sex ever be educative? Educ-
ative sex should be left to the
papiteffiemseh^aottogrop-
ing adults who shouldbe teach-
ing their pupils who won the
Battle of Hastings rather than
where the erogenous zones
are. (Virginia Ironside)

Sunday Mirror

Q UOTE OF THE DAY

“Hussein’s soul will remain with us and among us.”
King Abdullah,
new monarch of Jordan

T HOUGHT FOR THE PAY

“It is even harder for the average ape to believe that
he has descended from man.”

H.L. Mencken,

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noeman lamont smells a
rat The former Chancellor
has been trying to find out
why, last December; baggage
belonging to General
Pinochets staff was broken
into at Heathrow while they
were being interviewed by
Special Branch. Although
nothing was t»imn from the
bags, letters found in them
were opened, Lamont has
now received answers from
the Government giving a
categorical assurance that
Special Branch was not
involved. So, that leaves the
finger pointing at the baggage
handlers, doesn't it? Lamont
is dismissive of such a notion.
“What would baggage
handlers want with private
letters?" The Tory peer has
vowed to stay on the scent
telling Pandora; H I have great
difficulty in accepting the
assurances offered."

February). But Mr Pound
revealed a more spiritual
side when be remarked in a
Commons debate recently
that he is “a person who
tries to lead my life In
imitation of Christ".
Pandora is informed that
Pound is a particularity good
mimic of Tony Blair. Can
this be what our man from
Ealing is referring to?

PANDORA HAS unearthed

some more evidence of
doubting Thomases. Labour
MP Tam Dalyell recently
asked the Ministry of
Defence what it paid
journalists for being “an
asset”, “an assistant” or for
just “keeping their eyes
open". Hacks looking to
earn a little extra on the
side may take some comfort
from the Secretary of State
George Robertson's evasive
answer: “No journalist paid
for work by my department
is appointed directly in the
terms of the categories set
oat by my honourable
friend.”

PANDORA WAS delighted to
be among the throng
gathered for the the British
Book Awards at the Hilton
Hotel last Friday. At a packed
reception, Pandora noted that
Sir Edward Heath was
particularly resplendent in
his white dinner outfit
contrasting with the black
suits of the other guests.
Heath was observed in polite
conversation with the New
Labour couple Ken and
Barbara Ibllett, next to Ben
Elton and Roy Hattersley who
were busy string photocalls.
Meanwhile, Uri Gefler was
skulking in comers doing his
old cutleiy trick. One young
lady who claimed she had
never seen it was treated to a
special performance with a
teaspoon, which Geller then
signed. Afterwards Pandora
heard him admit “Of course,
it doesn't always work."

THE VETERAN DJ John Peel
has some top tips for -
wangling free hotel
accommodation. Peel
(pictured) explains to the
latest issue of Q magazine
that if he stays in a hotel he
expects some peace and
quiet. “The last time I
complained, the couple next
door were in what the
tabloids call a love romp'. I
wrote a sarcastic latter to the
hotel saying that the man had
been rehearsing a seal act in
the adjoining room. They
gave me a free room the next
time I went there!”

TM DELIGHTED to support
this championship. This ,
initiative brings together
two of football's breeding
grounds - Hackney Marshes
and five-a-side football.”
That was the fertile quote
given by the Prime Minister
in support of what the
Hackney Gazette calls
“Britain’s biggest soccer
football tournament”, to
take place this summer. Mr
Blair is rumoured to be
bolstering the tournament
by bringing his own all-star
Cabinet team. A mouth-
watering prospect Pandora
can see the line-up now:
frank Dobson in goal,

Robin “Chopper” Cook up
front, John Prescott on the
left-wing, Clare Short
generally putting her foot in
it. and the Welsh Secretary
Alan Michael left to, er.
sweep up.

THERE IS more to Stephen
Pound, Labour MP for
Ealing North, than meets
the eye. As readers will
know. Pandora A

recently revealed g

Pound to be part of w
the Limerick Three, %
a group of Labour ■ „

MPs who while away ; ^

their time in

committees by L

composing

witty

(see 5

HAS THE Star Wars backlash
already started? Certainty the
X-FUes star David
Duchovny thinks
so. “I say let’s
relax about Star
Wars. They were
good movies...
But they are not
the most

■Mmm&f momentous event
of our lifetime-”

the MONDAY REVIDV

A pilgrimage to the wrong shrine

BRITISH POLITICIANS see America
as a magic spring of political vigour.
Margaret Thatcher liked to put it
about that she was as close as
could be with Ronald Reagan, even
though there is more in Reagan's
memoirs about the Queen than
about the Iron Lady. Kenneth Baker
traipsed round some of the worst
schools in the world in south-east
Washington, followed by several
television crews, to promote his
scheme for getting corporate money
into our schools.

Italy Blaii; not to be outdone, likes
to go to Washington to attend sem-
inars on the “middle way”, organ-
ised by Bill Clinton’s aide, Sidney
BlmnenthaL And now the hapless
Wiliam Hague has chosen this mo-
ment of all moments to announce
that he is off to the United States to
learn from the Republicans howto
be a compassionate conservative.

Since tiie Contract with America
and Newt Gingrich’s triumph in
the 1994 mid-term elections, the Re-
publican Party has fallen apart
Clinton thrashed Senator Bob Dole
in the 1996 presidential election.
Now Gingrich is gone, and the
Republicans has lost two Speakers
of the House in less than a month,
which certainty meets Lady Brack-
nell’s definition of carelessness.
Most disastrous of all, the Repub-
licans have totalty miscalculated the

Godfrey

Hodgson

Hague has chosen a
curious moment to travel
to the US to learn
from the Republicans

impact of their attempt to impeach
the President, and will certainty be
punished at the polls.

Americans were shocked by the
way the Republicans in the House
of Representatives turned the im-
peachment into a straigta-down-the-
line party issue. And they have
se« how Trent Lott, the Republican
majority leader in the Senate, the
senator fhm Mississippi who comes
out of the same clique of ultra-
conservative Republicans who ram-
rodded the impeachment charges
through the House, tried to do the
same in the Senate.

Republicans got a sharp warning
when they failed to make the usual
mid-term gains in the elections last
November. And now they face elec-
toral disaster next yean One well-
informed Washington political
observer told me recently that be
thinks the Republican Party could
drop 40 seats in the House in 2000.
The general prognosis is that they
will lose control of the House and
could lose the Senate as wriL

Now, a lot can happen in 2l
months. The Republicans may re-
coven though it is hard to see what
they can do to erase the image they
have given themselves of reckless
fanatics out of touch with everyone
except a handful of rich right-wing
paymasters.

It is conceivable, too, that “mod-
erate” Republicans such as George
W Bush, the Governor of Texas,
whom Hague is going to visit, may
recapture control of the party from
the right, though I shan't.hold my
breath. What is for more Efaety is that
the British Tories, with exquisite
timing , have chosen to publicise
their sisters-un der-the -skin rela-
tionship with the Republicans at pre-
cisely the moment when the Grand
Old Party, as it likes to call itself, is
headed for its worst hiding since
Herbert Hoover:

Wiry would the Tory leadership
want to do that? Wfefl,' for one thing

the memory is yet green of how a
trip to Washington saved the party's
bacon in 1992. Late in 1991, Shaun
Woodward, now MP for Oxford-
shire West, and then newly
appointed as the party’s commun-
ications director; flew to Washington
with two colleagues to learn the
mystic skills of American political
use of the media at the feet of the
Repub lican pollster; Richard Wirth-
lin. The great man told Woodward
and his mates to focus on me issue;
tax. They flew back with a strategy;
and it worked.

So, at least, the matter is re-
membered in Ttay circles.

Then there is the legacy of
McKinsejy the management con-
sultants, where the Leader of the
Opposition received his postgradu-
ate education. Opinions vary about
the quality of the advice you get
when you call the firm in. But one
thing is beyond doubt every Mc-
KLnsey graduate is taught that the
fount of wisdom is to be sought in
the US. If in doubt Hague surety be-
lieves, do as the US Republicans do.

There is, howevo: more to it than
that Hague is quintessentialty a
Thatch erite. And the essence of
the Thatcher message was
borrowed from the teachings of the
American conservatism of the late
Seventies and the Eighties, not co-
incidentally the years when a young

Hague was beginning to form hi>

ideas about the world.

The political lesson of the Nine-
ties is that Thatcherism and Us par-
ent Reaganism, have not worked as
their missionaries promised usthey
would. Communism may be dead,
and socialism discredited, but there
was no Reagan revolution. There is
such a thing as society. Margot,
and there is more to political wisdom
than getting government oil toe
backs of the people.

That is why Conservative gov-
ernments have been chased from al-
most every country in western
Europe, and why even in eastern
Europe people have had second
thoughts about the market Tliat is
why Bill Clinton has twice teen
elected President of the United
States. And it is one of the reasons
why the Republicans are not wav-
ing but drowning in the US, even
while the economy soars upward.

The other, of course, is that Re-
publican conservatives in the
United States have made the mis-
take of listening only to those who
share their ideology. Which makes
them soulmates for our own home-
grown conservatives.

Godfrey Hodgson is the author of
- The World Turned Ripftf Side Up'.
a history of American conserv-
atism since 1945

Sir Paul’s spin cannot alter

the uncomfortable truth

GIVEN THE dreadful failings ex-
posed ty the Stephen Lawrence in-
quiry the Metropolitan Police might
have been expected to be awaiting
its findings with some humility
Instead, in an attempt to duck one

oftheworstroastmgs of its 170-year
history, the Met has embarked ona
last-minute propaganda offensive.

The aim is to rubbish Sir William
Macpherson’s report in advance of
publication later this month, and the
results so far are a credit to the
force’s spin doctors. Over recent
days, a rash of articles has ap-
peared in newspapers traditionally
sympathetic to the police, and
further pieces are in the pipeline.

The message is always the same.
The inquiry cannot hope to do jus-
tice to Neville and Doreen Lawrence
- the parents of Stephen, the mur-
dered black teenager - because it
was hijacked by political activists
hostile to the police and degenerated
into a witch hunt intent on rooting
out institutional racism.

Thus a columnist in The Times
declared that the inquiry “has too
much of the whiff of Salem to leave
toe unbiased anything but uneasy”.
The Daily Telegraph, meanwhile,
denounced toe inquiry's “McCarthy-
ite approach" and warned that “a
separate agenda is bring foisted on
a largely unwitting public”.

Is it an accident that the two
newspapers are singing from toe
same hymn sheet? Within the past
fortnight, Sir Paul Condon, the Met-
ropolitan Police Commissioner has,
at his own request, paid a visit to
both The Times and The Daily Tele-
graph to brief editors and journal-
ists about the Lawrence case.

But toe propaganda war is not
being waged only at toe Commis-

Kathy

Marks

Of all the players in the
Lawrence case, it is the
Met’s commissioner who
has most reason to sweat

sioner’s leveL After months of con-
fusion about how to respond to toe
criticisms heaped upon toe Met, toe
main trade unions- the Police Fed-
eration and toe Police Superinten-
dents Association - have condemned
toe inquiry as partial and unfair.

Nor are police the sole combat-
ants in this battle for hearts and
minds, as was illustrated by events
following The Independent's recent
revelation that the Lawrences’
soBdtoi; Imran Khan, and barrister
Michael Mansfield, will be censured
by the inquiry for their role in toe
private prosecution of toe murder
suspects. On the day the article
appeared, Mr Khan let it be known
that the family had uncovered yet
another potential scandal, namely
that the detective in charge of toe
Lawrence murder squad, Super-
intendent Albert Patrick, was bring
investigated in relation to alleged
corruption elsewhere in toe force.

One effect of this disclosure was

to take the heat off the two lawyers
- although Scotland Yard then

produced a tr ump rarri, announcing

at a hastily arranged press con-
ference that John Grieve, the highly
respected head of its racial crimes
unit, would be taking over from Mr
Patrick.

Even the reviled suspects - Neil
and Jamie Acourt, David Norris,
Gary Dobson and Luke Knight- are
jostling to have their say. Their par-
ents have written to toe makers of
a television documentary insisting
that their fays are innocent

But of all the players, it is Condon
who is in the spotlight, and it is he
who has most reason to sweat He
has staked his reputation, and his
job, on toe inquiry’s outcome, pledg-
ing to resign if he is personally crit-
icised. In an interview last week,
however; he made it dear that he is
not prepared to M on his truncheon.
“I should have the courage to see
through the reforms that will no
doubt come out of toe inquiry,” he
told toe interviewer; who observed
that “there's a near missionary zeal
about Sir Paul as he outlines the
work he would like to do in 1999".

Other articles have reflected toe
arguments that Condon advances in
private to rebut criticism of his of-
ficers. As an example of toe sup-
posedly shabby way that witnesses
were treated at the inquiry, for in-
stance, he cites toe grilling of an off-
duty constable, James Geddis, who
stopped to help Stephen. However;
as Mr Geddis acknowledged to the
inquiry he was bound by toe same
professional standards as his col-
leagues on duty. And, as he admitted,
he did not administer first aid to
Stephen, or even examine him to
locate his wound.

Sir Paul Condon tearing the Lawrence inquiry last summer

The notion that police gave evi-
dence in a hostile atmosphere - in-
terrogated by McCarthyite lawyers,
abused l?y spectators - is bring
propagated throughout the Met and
repeated by commentators who
never set foot in toe inquiry cham-
ber m souto tarriom It is a complaint
first made last month, although the
hearings ended in July, and it is an
absurd distortion of what went on.

Yes, there was tough questioning
by the Lawrences' lawyers, but that
was their job. This was a public
inquiry into why police failed to
catch a gang of racist killers, and
many of toe important answers sur-
faced in cross-examination. Yes, toe
atmosphere was tense at times, but
spectators more often laughed than
heckled, so surreal was some of toe
evidence. Was testifying at the in-
quiry realty more intimidating for
police than patrolling the rougher
streets of London?

Sir Paul appears to think so.

What exercises him more than
anything else, though, is the
prospect that toe inquiry report will
accuse his force of institutional
racism - those two words that stuck
in his gullet when he gave evidence
to the inquiry himself.

In toe current flurry of articles,
friendly newspapers have gone out
of their way to ridicule that charge.
Jack Straw, though, has made it plain
that he wants the inquiry to be a
springboard for root-and-branch re-
form of toe police. The Horae Sec-
retary has even asked Sir William to
come up with a new definition of that
prickly term, institutional racism.

Sir Paul would do better to ac-
knowledge the gaping wounds ex-
posed by toe Lawrence case than to
skulk around behind toe scenes de-
fending the indefensfola The inquiry
was fairly conducted and, if the re-
port reflects what it revealed, no
amount of spinning now will ma ke
toe slightest bit of difference.

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of reform and modern-
isation -and not just of the con-
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which comes along to us rarely
more than twice each century.
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Democrats and Labour are
natural partners. And I hope
that we will continue to be so
- for there is much work to be
done together.

The splits in the Conserv-
ative Party over Europe are
deep and probably unbridge-
able The recent departure of
two Conservative MEPs -
though, in my view, premature
- is nevertheless deeply
significant.

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flashpoint the divisions in the
Conservative Party now reach
far beyond this single issue
More than at any other point
this century, toe Conservative
Rarty is my w two parties - two
parties at war with one another
-who are held together notby
common beliefs, but only by
electoral expediency
It is a loveless marriage,
held together by the strait-
jacket of First Past the Post
But slowly, as toe strait-jacket

is loosened, the marriage is
unraveflmg.

The potential of Propor-
tional Representation [PR] to
jemmy open cracks in our
party monoliths is not limited
to toe Conservative Party. The
Labour Parly, too, though it
hides it better; is irrevocably
split Not over Europe, this
time, but aver socialism. One
part of toe Labour Rarty be-
lieves in it One part does not
And in the middle, a few tor-
tured souls run around des-
perately trying to redefine it to
cover toe latest development

There are today not three,
but five political parties in
British politics. Two Conserv-
ative Parties. And two Labour
Parties too. And Old Labour are
just as far from influence and
power as toe Conservatives.

In toe Labour Party too,
there are hints of what may be
to coma The effective dese-
lection of Old Labour MEPs, for
which New Labour has oppor-
tunistically used this year’s
change in voting system as an
excuse, but which would prob-
ably have happened anyway
The refusal to approve Dennis
Canavan for toe Scottish elec-
tions, for little more than bring
an old-style socialist The set-

Podium

Paddy ashdown

From a lecture to the
Royal Society of Arts
on proportional
representation given
by the leader of the
Liberal Democrats

ting up of Arthur ScargflTs So-
cialist Labour Party
Unde - our current system a
breakaway of the left is rat im-
possible, and they could well be
pushed into it for Tbny Blair
would not miss them. But it
could come about only from
total desperation, for it would
be doomed from toe start
"fet under PRthere would be
hope. In some parts of the
country, 10 per cent of the vote

would not be beyond their
reach and a new party of
socialists, credibly led, could
reasonably hope to win a small

group in Parliament, although
I wouldn't personalty recom-
mend it to voters. That would
be the honest way for the two
sides of the Labour Rarty to
resolve their differences. No
mane internal appeasement, no
more loveless marriages.

Now, having touched on
Labour and the Tories, Td
better say a word about toe Lib
Dems. There is a misconcep-
tion among some commenta-
tors - and perhaps even some
high in the Labour Party -
about the long-term aims of our
co-operation with Labour.
They misunderstand what the
“political realignment” is that
we are seeking. They assume
that toe aim is to create one
smgle, huge, hegemonic party
of the centre left, reducing
choice for electors. Let me
state dearly, this is not my
vision and it never has been.

In fact, my aim is quite the
opposite. I am not in toe busi-
ness of predicting the overall
state of British politics in lOor
15 years' time. But my aim is
to help create a political envir-
onment where people can work

together without having to be
in toe same party And where
voters at election time can
choose not just between two
uncomfortable coalitions, but
between each major strand of
current political thought

Can it realty be right that
when a voter goes to the polls
they can make no distinction
between 1 whether they are sup-
porting the Labour Party of
Tbny Blair or toe Labour Party
of Tony Ben n? Or whether
they are voting for the Conserv-
ative Party of Michael Howard
or that of Michael Heseltine?

Maybe, in a time before

^ media, people’s ability to

choose between their polit-
icians was limited to a simple
choice of A orB. But surety now
wehave gone beyond that?

Proportional Represent-
155 , the “eans by whidi
parties, large and small, can

TtT «««uuier names
without being destroyed fo the
Process, ft would create a new
dynamic, enabling small, in-
“P^dent parties to thrive

SSri? “ dra ^ ng ^ into

catch-all coalitions.
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would be entrenched t
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The lost world of suburbia

Natasha

Walter

I know how it feels to long
for a home that sits in a
real place - in the city, full
of energy, or the country

so MANY miles of Britain are cov-
ered with them; ribbons of red-tiled,
pebbledashed houses, the pale net
curtains drawn tight inside their
double-glazed windows, a Fbrd
Mondeo parked in the paved-over
front garden, with just a stained-
glass tulip let into a window or a

Two neighbours stop for a chat in Gants Hill - ‘a lovely place 20 years ago but it's now gone downhill,’ according to one resident

Nicola Kurtz

carnage light fixed to a wall to set
one house off from another.

Most people in Britain live in sub-
urbs, and we take fiar granted, as we
drive from city to dJy or look idly out
of the window on trainjourneys, Ehpt
all our towns will be ringed around
with those sprawling, endless
mazes of closes and crescents and
culs-de-sac, where families ran get
on with the business of living, very
tidily, very quietly, remembering
never to disturb the neighbours.

Now a report published by the
Civic Trust, with a mouthful of a title
- “Sustainable Renewal of Sub-
urban Areas" - has accused us of
dangerous complacency when it
comes to the suburbs. Michael
Gwilliam, director at the Civic Thist,
said: “Most attention in the debate
about urban renewal has been
focused on inner cities. But the lack
of debate about suburban areas is
•y disturbing. Parts of them need
; early attention if they are to avoid
becoming tomorrow’s problems.”
It's pretty hard to take this
demand for the renewal of the
suburbs at all serious^ A friend who
works at one of the largest grant-
giving organisations in Britain once
described a meeting at which they
heard an impassioned plea for mare
aid to relieve the desolation of
urban poverty. Various assenting
noises were made, and. then one
colleague argued that they should
not however ignore rural poverty.
More assenting noises, and them
another colleague piped up. “So
what’s so good about the suburbs?”
Laughter took over
Why is it hard to believe that the
suburbs need any attention? Well,
how can webeHeve that peril is lurk-
ing in the suburbs when their very
essence is the absence of danger?
How can we possibly say that
suburbs are on the edge, when
they absolutely define the safe
' >1 centre of England?

The suburbs arenot tottering an
the brink of decay because the
suburbs are, necessarily, the place

whoei the three-piece suite is con-
stantly re-covered, the car is con-
stantly washed, and new and more
lurid varieties of clematis are spied
every few yards. For many British
writers, the suburbs have been
more than risible, they have been
the epitome of everything despic-
able in the British spirit George
Orwell the hero of his 1936
novel. Coming lepftrr Air, back to
the scenes of his authentically rural
working-class boyhood, only to find
that “the countryside had been
buried by a kind of volcanic erup-
tion from tiie suburbs... it was all
houses, houses, little red cubes of
houses all alike." His suburbs are
terrifyingly invmrible. More than 60
years latei; why should we think
anything has changed?

Suburbs are the places where
authenticity goes missing and sub-
urban people aren’t meant to have
anything Bke real character; just -
at most - genteel eccentricities.
They can be lampooned in sitcoms,
but they don’t own any drama. Gan
you ima gin e West Side Story or
Withering Heights rewritten for the
English sfnhiirh? T hat lank dranyi

makes the suburbs stifling to those
who grow up there. As a child,
Nick Hornby would pretend at
Arsenal matches that he hailed

from the dangerous city, when in
fact he lived in Maidenhead. “Ever
since I have been old enough to
understand what it is to be subur-
ban I have wanted to come from
somewhere else," he wrote in fteoer
Pitch, and thousands of readers
have echoed his heartfelt cry.

Having spent long adolescent
years in one of those generic sub-
urban roads, lined with semi-
detached pebble-dashed houses,
which I would walk up and down, up
and down, to get to the Tube station
Ah' the interminable journey into
central London, I know how it feels
to long for a home that sits in a real
place - in the city ftdl of energy and
noise, or in the country; full of
gmpiis and thorns. Anything, in
fact, rather than that weirdly silent
Umbo, cut only by the rumble of the
passing trains and the chorus of
lawnmowers starting up every Sun-
day morning. Everything that writ-
ers from George Orwell to Nick
Hornby say about the suburbs
makes sense when the nearest you
get to urban life is the carpeted pub
filled with couples in leisurewear;
and the nearest you get to country
life is the choked stream that runs
tidily through the local park before
disappearing under the road.

Disaffected young suburbanites

are hardly alone. As soon as we get
out of the suburb we start the busi-
ness of reinventing ourselves, call-
ing Pinner “north London", or
reclaiming our families 1 long-lost
roots in Cumbria or Bethnal Green
It’s extraordinary how many people
you meet at work and university
who seem to hail from either Sloane
Square or Broadwater Farm -
depending on what identity they
choose to mask their suburban
roots - but who in fact turn out to
have come from Purley.

At some point in recent years
most powerful commentators, from
Richard Rogers to EfteDecamtum,
seemed to agree that the day of the
suburb was oven The ideal for the
dty now is laid out by Rogers in
Cities for a SmoU Planet, in which
he d ismisses tho f pwiHpntial suburb
as a “single-minded space”, as
opposed to trendy, open-minded
spaces such as city squares and
pavement restaurants. We’re all
going to live in warehouse conver-
sions and eat in riverside cafes,
aren’t we? So it’s goodbye Magno-
lia Avenue and hello City Lofts.

That’s the suburb for you - a
place to be taken for granted,
mocked and finally abandoned.
How bizarre, then, to be told sud-
denly that suburbs are an endan-

gered species- and to hear the sug-
gestion that they would be worth
preserving. Gants Hill in Redbridge
is one of the suburbs that the Civic
Trust's report picked out as in need
of attention. And yesterday it was
fedng a chilly grey afternoon with
a wind that blew into your eyes and
made them weep. The place looked
like any of hundreds of British sub-
urbs, with its tandoori and its cin-
ema by the station, and then,
leading off from that half-hearted
centre, miles of lonely roads edged
with crazy paving and almost-but-
not-quite identical houses with tim-
bered gables and glazed porches.

Bat in the mnddfly verdant park
there were boys in haninous sports-
wear playing footie, and families
feeding the ducks on the ponds.
Some were eager to talk about the
dangers pressing on their enclave.
One Asian girl, wbo declined to give
her name, said she’d be out of
Gants EGO as soon as she could.
“Bits of Redbridge are really rough
now. you know? There are streets
where you don’t want to walk
alone,” she explained.

“It’s a great neighbourhood, but
it’s declining,” scud talkative Les
Hearne, out wife his wife and grand-
son. “They’ve put these motorways
and these red routes right through

the area, so no one can stop now.
That's fine if you want to get to
Stansted Airport in a hurry but it’s
no good to us that live here, is it? If
you cant stop, you cant shop, so the
shops die. And then no one wants
to live here ”

“It was lovely here 20 years ago,
lots of very nice shops," says
Madeleine Hearne. “Now it's gone

dow nhill. ”

The Civic Trust's report notes
that parts of Redbridge are now
entering a spiral of decline, as their
local centres lose out to shopping
centres in Thurrock and Dartford
and their residents become in-
creasingly dependent on their cars
to take them out of the area. The
suburbanites I talked to blamed the
big supermarket and road-builders
for spoiling the place that bad once
made sense to them.

In other words, the suburbs want
exactly the same things that the
inner cities want: places to play,
places to shop and roads that bdong
to people rather than cars. It will
take a big turnaround in the think-
ing of local authorities and
government to see that they get
them. But if they don’t, maybe the
Civic Trust is right, and one day we
shall be lamenting the lost heyday
of the suburb.

Right
of Reply

JOHN

CARR

The Internet
consultant and DTI
adviser replies to a
leading article on
censoring the Web

your COMMENT that “auth-
oritarians and libertarians
alike must agree that the
whole issue of freedom on the
Net needs to be examined
immediately" is a little be-
side the point. Such an exam-
ination has been going on for
some time. The problem is, it
has been getting nowhere.

The Internet started as on
essentially chaotic medium. As
its technical infrastructure
has developed and become
better understood, so the
possibilities of exercising
greater control have emerged.

Yet the self-prodairacd lib-
ertarians have resisted every
attempt to regulate the Inter-
net, even where the primary
purpose of the proposed regu-
lation or control has been to
deal with plainly illegal
activity. Every battle has been
fought as if democracy and
civilisation depended entirely
on preserving the status quo.

Regrettably, in the United
States, where most decisions
about the Internet are taken,
the courts seem largely to be
on the ride of the so-called lib-
ertarians. I say “regrettably"
because what I see being
labelled “libertarianism" is no
more than nihilistic licence,
laced with poisonous cyni-
cism about the intentions
behind any governmental
move to introduce reforms.

I am utterly uninterested in
preventing consenting adults
from doing or looking at what-
ever they Hke. Howevec I am
extremely anxious that,
whether by accident or as a
result of youthful curiosity,
children, my own included,
should not be precipitated into
parts of the adult world and
aspects of the human psyche
that are entirely inappropriate
for them in their tender years.

We already have laws
which, for good reasons, ban
or control such material and
activities in the real world. Are
we to be denied the opportun-
ity of doing the same in the
virtual world?

Turning a blind eye to genocide

READING THIS book produces an un-
comfortable feeling of cfejd vu.
Notwithstanding the significant dif-
ferences between the Nazi mass mur-
der of Jews and the slaughter of
civilians in Kosovo today, in both
cases the world response has been
little and late. The unpleasant truth is
that knowledge of atrocities in war
zones has never been a sufficient
condition for remedial action by gov-
Semments feeing powerful counter-
'arguments based on realpolitik. Nor
is the punishment of the criminals re-
sponsible or the heads of state who
preside over torturers and kfllere car-
ried out with much more determin-
ation now than in the case of the Nazis.

It may be that this failure of nerve,
despite the incantation since 1945 of
“Never Again", has Med the contro-
versy addressed by Richard Breit-
man’s latest book, Breitman argues
that the British and American
wartime Leadership knew about the
Holocaust earlier than has previously
been thought, and that there is scant

MONDAY POEM

at NIOONRISE

BY ROBERT WELLS

Youth's good was its own body
Which did not fafi-

! At moonrise I would dive naked

Into the pod,

Splinter the beams, surface.

Watch them regathec

Self-knowledge was n0 more
Than the touch of wates

?ur poems today and tomorrow
come from Robert Weft s s
new collection. 'Lusus
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MONDAY BOOK I

OFFICIAL SECRETS: WHAT THE
NAZIS PLANNED, WHAT THE BRITISH
AND AMERICANS KNEW

BY RICHARD BREITMAN.

ALLEN LANE/THE PENGUIN PRESS, £20

excuse for their poor record of action
to save imperilled Jews. Certainly, it
is easier to beat our breasts about the
inadequacies of policy 50 years ago,
when discussions of appropriate action
are merely academic, than to acknow-
ledge the same lapses today.

But do the parallels that will be
drawn from Breitman’s work hold
good? Much of bis argument rests on
recently declassified decrypts of radio
traffic between Berlin police head-
quarters and German militarised pol-
ice units engaged in the massacre of
Russian Jews. This traffic was inter-
cepted at Bletchky Park, decoded and
passed on to mteffigence analysts for
use by the highest military and polit-
ical echelons in Britain.

However; Breitman is on shaky
ground when he claims that the
decrypts from summer 1941 gave
Allied leaders an insight into what
historians now call the Holocaust-
New research by young German
historians suggests that from Sep-
tember 1939 onwards, homicidal pol-
icies were initiated against the Jews
and other “racial undesirables" at dif-
ferent levels of the German adminis-
tration. at different tunes, and for a
variety of reasons-although aB were
underpinned by the deadly racial-
biological assumptions of the Nazi
state. None of these initiatives was
conceivable without Hitler’s inspir-
ation or ultimate consent, but the
centre itself initiated limited slaugh-
ter before it launched a global plan for
genocide, into which all other mur-
derous practices were integrated.

Breitman maintains, controvers-
ially that Hitler's decision to kill Eur-
ope’s Jews came well before the
invasion of Russia. As if to coverall
eventualities, he blurs the mass mur-
der of Jews in the USSR in mid-1941
into the “Final Solution” of mid-1942.
Arguably what British analysts read
in summer 1941 indicated a wave of
massacres perpetrated against Rus-
sia's Jews - appalling enough, but
circumscribed If historians today,
with access to all the documents,
cannot agree on toe timing of Hitler’s
decision to embark on genocide, how
can we impugn wartime leaders for
their “faffure" to warn Jews or act to
prevent it?

By contrast, there is no escaping his
conclusion that, during 1942, the de-
liberate withholding of Enigma de-
crypts that confirmed reports of
systematic killings torraighmtTbtmpfr
allowed sceptical officials and minis-
ters to delay action, with terrible
consequences. Brei tman dramatic-
ally reveals that by May 1943
intelligence decrypts and Polish
unda®Tnmd sources had proved that
Auscbwitz-Birkenau had become a
vast killing-site that had already con-
sumed 640,000 lives. This shocking
discovery underlines the incompre-
henribffity of the Allies’ failure in 1944
to use air power against the camp.

Breitman, a tenacious researcher
who txanriatesamass to complex doc-
uments into a highly readable narra-
tive, throws important tight on the role
of the “Order Police” and their un-
savoury commanders, from Kurt

Auschwitz concentration camp

Daluege downwards. Daluege was
executed by toe Czechs for the oblit-
eration of Lidice, but escaped oppro-
brium for the massacre of Jews, in
which Ids men played a role that
historians have so far underrated.
Most of them got away with it Their
ability to evade retribution rested
partly on Britain's scandalous dedrion
rot to supply decrypted information ft* -
use in war crimes trials.

Breitman attributes tins despicable
concealment to a continuity of official
attitudes towards the Jews: their
murder tod not bother British policy
makers that much, so nor did the
punishment of those responsible. Yet
he discloses that during the war
Britain, astorodmgfy, tod give the
Soviet Union material based on de-
crypts. Why then, did the USSR not
prosecute toe kfflers?

Rex Features

Breitman raises as many ques-
tions as be answers, not lrast because
his book is somewhat episodic and his
own explanation to the Final Solution
not watertight But he is such a good
historian that he acknowledges toe
lacunae and never claims to be de-
finitive. Official Secrets is an import-
ant contribution to solving the puale
surrounding Nazi mass murder and
the response to the free world. Sadly,
toe events we read about every day
provide their own, partial answer to
that conundrum.

David cesarani

The reviewer, u>ho is professor cf mod-
em Jewish history at Southampton
U7M>ersity and directorof die Wiener
Library, recently published Arthur
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King Hussein of Jordan

WHEN KING Hussein ascended the
throne of Jordan on 12 August 1952,
at the age of 16, he was a youth of
little promise in a position of great
peril. His father; King Talal, had
abdicated on the grounds of “ner-
vous instability'’, and left for
Turkey. His beloved grandfather
King Abdullah had been assassi-
nated, before Hussein’s own eyes,
in Jerusalem on 20 July 1951. But
for a medal which stopped one of
the assassin's bullets, Hussein him-
self might have been killed. Yet,
while other Arab rulers suffered
assassination or ignominy for over
40 years King Hussein made Jordan
a bastion of sanity and stability in
the Middle East.

Hussein's upbringing was far
from opulent. He claimed that he
once had to sew up a torn blazer “be-
cause I knew my parents could not
possibly afford to buy me another”.
Hussein went to six schools in
Amman, before the Englisb-run Vic-
toria College in Alexandria, and
Harrow in England - where he
found protocol considerably stricter
than in the palace in Amman. While
never close to his father, in the
early years of his reign he was
strongly influenced by his conserv-
ative and monarchical mother,
Queen Zein, called by one British
ambassador “the Mettemich of the
Middle East".

Fbr six months after his acces-
sion, the king attended the military
academy at Sandhurst According to
his company commander, Major-
General David Horsfield, “Officer
Cadet King Hussein" was “fay no
means a leading academic. But he
was a jolly good cadet, a good team
player . . . developing in silence. " The
king enjoyed Sandhurst’ soldiering
remained a lifelong passion.

His principal problem was
enshrined in a phrase of his inau-
guration speech: “Jordan acknowl-
edges the brotherhood which links
together all the peoples of the great
Arab nation." Jordan was over 60 per
cent Palestinian in population, and
was surrounded fay rich and pow-
erful Arab neighbours, Egypt Iraq,
and Saudi Arabia, as well as by the
Palestinians' mortal enemy, Israel.
It owed its existence not to history
or geography, but to the Emir Ab-
dullah's invasion of southern Syria
in 1920, from the femfiyfief of Hejaz
in what is now Saudi Arabia, and his
annexation of portions of Palestine
in 1948. Beset by the Forces of
Palestinian nationalism, Nasserism
and Islamic fundamentalism, this
dynastic state seemed doomed
to disappear

Moreover, since King Hussein's
dynasty the Hashemites had start-
ed the Arab revolt in 1916, their re-
liance on British troops and money,
and readiness to negotiate with
Zionists, had diminished their pres-
tige in the Middle East They re-
garded themselves as the senior
descendants of the Prophet Mo-
ham ed, “the oldest reigning dy-
nasty in the world", and natural
leaders of a movement for Arab
unity. Yet many Arabs regarded,
and regard, them as traitors. King

murder attempts that, he wrote,
“sometimes I feel like the central
character in a detective novel".

In 1957 his Chief of Staff Gener-
al Maan Abu Nuwaq “a young en-
ergetic helper in whom I had
reposed my trust”, tried to launch
a coup. With characteristic courage
and panache, the king drove to the
rebellious regiments, spoke to them
himself despite what he called “bul-
lets flying about", and regained
their loyalty. In 1958 Syrian MIGs
tried to force his plane to land in
Syria, and there was a plot by an*
otha' chief of staff in 1959. During the
1967 war with Israel, an Israeli bomb
which landed in his study in Basman
Palace might have killed him.

Israel was not the king’s worst
enemy. He joined the 1967 war part-
ly in order to appease Jordanian pub-
lic opinion, partly because Nasser
had deceived him about Egypt's
military performance. In 1968-70.
with the support of many Jordani-
ans and most of the Arab world, the
Palestine liberation Organisation
es tablishe d a cordon of mini-states
in .Iordan. PLO soldiers killed one
of the king’s cousins and the US As-
sistant Military Attache. and shot at
the king himself The survival of the
regime was, yet again, in doubt the
king admitted that “the people in tire
armed forces began to lose confi-
dence in me" - untS he chose to fight

Hussein’s
background - he
went to Harrow
and Sandhurst -
made him one of
the few Arab
politicians who
handled Western
governments, and
media, effectively

In one week, 17-25 September
1970 - “Black September" to the
FIX) -the PLO was defeated despite
support from Syria and Iraq, which
had forces in the country. The king
supervised operations from his
country house in Hummer outside
Amman, relieving tension by mak-
ing “ham” radio broadcasts around
the world from a personal trans-
mitter. The PLO subsequently de-
clared that the liberation of Jordan
from the “puppet royal regime"
was as important as the liberation
of Palestine itself.

His enemies attributed King Hus-
sein’s survival to Western backing.
His badjground made him one of the
few Arab politicians who handled
Western governments, and media,
effectively. In 1958, after the murder

of his cousin and friend King Faisal
II of Iraq, and most of the royal fam-
Abdullah had been assassinated by ily, when many Jordanian officials
a Palestinian nationalist and King openly expressed Nasserite and
Hussein's own reign would be punc- anti-Hashemite views, and the king
tuated by so many conspiracies and himself suffered from “Kstlessness’’,

British troops had returned to Jor-
dan for several months to protect tbe
monarchy. Israel repeatedly threat-
ened to intervene tf King Hussein
was overthrown, and Hussein had
many “secret? interviews with Israeli
leaders in his search for peace. Until
1990 he received Western and Saudi
Cand until 1978 Iranian - the king ofren
holidayed with the Shah) fin a nci a l
aid: without which his impoverished
country could not have survived.

However; Hussein’s own person-
ality was also a source of strength.
Devoid of feelings of vengeance or
fanaticism, he made his state one of
the least brutal in the region. Police
control of travel and speech was
strict, but, unlike other Arab rulers,
the king did not start wars, destroy
cities, blow-up civilian aeroplanes or
pack prisons. Many of his worst en-
emies, including Maan Abu Niiwar
received pardons and returned to
Jordan. Christians, and women,
served in Jordanian cabinets. The
king’s charm and dignity added to
his prestige. A former head chef at
the palace. Andrew Mitchell, called
him “a kind, warm, almost glowing
man . .. the king is really caring -
no wonder his staff is so entirely
devoted to him".

His army was devoted too. After
Iip dismi ssed its British commander
Glubb Pasha, in 1956, at the height
of anti-British feeling in the Middle
East, he ran it himself His ease of

imental functions, made Hussein far
closer to his fellow soldiers than the
monarchs of, for example, Iran or
Saudi Arabia. The troops became
lions around the throne.

Under King Hussein, Jordan re-
mained an autocracy with a parlia-
mentary £aqade. Access to the
monarch was crucial; the post of
chief of the Royal Court was second
only to that of prime minis ter. With
age and experience, the king became
“the principal decision-maker in all
fields of policy”, especially foreign
policy, according to his biographer
James LunL He appointed the prime
and foreign ministers, and received
ambassadors' reports directly. Part
of the boom which made Jordan’s
GDP grow by 14 per cent per annum
between 1975 and 1983, and trans-
formed Amman frrana frontier town

Hussein at Harrow. He found the protocol at the school stricter than in Amman Button Getty

into a cosmopolitan capital, and re- rather than one of his half-English
gtanal headquarters of many foreign sons. Crown Prince Hassan, who
firms, can be attributed to the king’s acted as Regent when the king was
shrewdness and common sense. abroad, was as important as the

Isolated, in constant danger with king's wires in maintaining his inner

few close friends, the king did not strength. Rarely in the history of
always find personal happiness, mooardy have a king and his broth'
After the rapid break-up of his first er worked so harmoniously togeth-
marriage to a Cambridge-educated ec The crown prince, who had been
Egyptian cousin, Sherifa Dina, he educated at Oxford, was an intel-
knew loneliness. With his second lectual who spoke Turkish, French
wife, Tbni Gardner; daughter of a and Hebrew. Of the king’s sons the
British officer working in Jordan, he good-looking, balf-Britisfa Abdullah,
lived in a modest house outside head of the Jordanian army’s com-
Amman, cooking breakfast “every mamtoimt, was consider the most
other morning”. He was also happy intelligent, and inherited his father’s
with her more sophisticated Rales- charm. Queen Noor's son Hamzah
tinian successor; Alia Tbuqan. After was said to be his father’s favourite.
Queen Alia’s death in a plane crash, Ah, son of the Palestinian Queen Aha,
he married an Arab- American, Lisa once considered the king's choice to
Halaby (Queen Noor), tall, blonde succeed Crown Prince Hassan, had
and beautiful, who converted to become a playboy.

Islam and became a patron of Arab King Hussein had long present-

culture and international charities, ed himself as a Palestinian leader.

In 1965 it had been a character- Only with great reluctance (fid he ac-
isticafiy shrewd decision to appoint cept the PLO’sdaim to represent the
as Crown Prince his brother Hassan, Palestinians in 1974. On 19 February

1986, infuriated by Ifesser Arafat’s lectingridcarsandfiyoagaeroplanes
refusal to recognise Israel, he sus- (even c« international flights be was
pended relations with the PLO lead- generally his own plot). He was also
ership “until such time as their a “snacber” and “pizza freak” fix*
word becomes their bond, charac- whom faiafai., pizza and chi cken fin -
tensed by commitment, credibility gershadtobeavailahleatall times,
and constancy”. Yet the king, called Money, as well as hostility to

by someofhis subjects “the Day to Syria, may have been at the root of
Day King", was himself no stranger his improbable friendship with Pres-
to unpetaous changes of policy which ident Saddam Hussein of Iraq,
owed more to instinct than judge- Throughout the 1980s Jordan acted
mentfo 1988 he began to dismantle as a middle man for Iraqi purchas-
Jordan's remaining legal and ad- es of arms and technology. Some im-
ministrative links with the West pfaed that the king direettybarefited.
Bank - thereby strengthening the Betook Queen Noor to stay with toe
PLCs control over the Palestinians, dictator; and described himself as
Originaltycmiteattqliveinarim- “very dose to Saddam Hussein", al-
ple house outside Amman, with age though “unable to influence him and
Hussein developed a taste fbr lux- to change the course of events",
my building palaces in and around In tbe summer of 1990, after Sad-

Amm an and Aqaba and buying dam Hussein invaded Kuwait, K i n g
houses in Washington, Ascot and Hussein's assumption of the title
Switzerland: he sold his London “Sharif”, like his great-grandfather
house to pay for the reading of the Sharif Hussein of Mecca, was seen
mosque of the Dome of the Rock in as a sign of a revival of the family
Jerusalem. The king was no read- claim to the Hejaz . His support for
er; his hobbies included horses, col- Saddam Hussein during the Gulf

War of 1991 made the king more pop.
ular in the streets of Amman than
at any time since the dismissal tf -
Glubb Pasha. When his left kidney
was removed at the Mayo Clinic in
1992, on account of cancer in the mi. *
nary tract, some of his subjects of-
fered to donate their own kidney to
replace their king’s. 'Vet, as adirwt
result of Saddam’s wax; over 300,000
Palestinians left the Gulf for Jordan-
the economy could not absorb them
and. by foiling to oppose Saddam
even verbally, the long gained the
enmity of Saudi Arabia, long Jordan’s
financial mainstay. When they met, 1
Saudi princes refused to embrace
the King of Jordan.

In 1995, as peace with Israel ap-
peared to solidity, the Jordanian
economy revived. Amman became a
centre of trade with Israel. Soon, how-
ever, popular hostility to Israel
seemed stronger than eveq and there
were bread riots in Kerak, sooth tf
Jordan. Once “very dose” to Saddam
Hussein, the king took the initiative '
in welcoming members of the dicta-
tor's family who fled to Amman. In '
1998 the king's battle with cancer of -
the lymphatic tissue, and months of
chemotherapy at the Mayo CUnic in
Rochester. Minnesota, inspired
panic among some of his subjects.
A spectral figure, bald and frafl,
he was the most impressive leader
at yet another round of IsraeK-
Palestinian peace talks, at Wye
Plantation in the United States in
October 1998.

In January 1999, however many
Jordanians were shocked when the
king, who had spent much of his re- ;
cent painful cancer treatment alone
with Queen Noor; on a brief visit to
Amman suddenly issued a royal
decree, changing the succession
away from Crown Prince Hassan,
the experienced statesman who
had held the post for 33 years, in '
favour of his eldest son, Prince Ath
dullah. Fbr the first time the kmg
criticised his brother's conduct tf fee
government, in particular the army
m his absence, m a bitter tetter which
also alleged that Queen Noor and
Prince Hamzah had been subjected
to “whispering, innuendo and a
smear campaign". Prince Abdullah
was sworn in as Regent on five tar-
mac of Queen Alia Internafiooal
Airport just before the king flew
back to America fbr his last days of
cancer treatment

In a brave speech of 13 October
1991 the king, not for the first time,
had described himself as tired and
thinking of abdication, and urged his
subjects to “bury senseless iDukons’’,
“face reality” and accept peace with
Israel It was his greatest claim to
respect that he had long been the
Arab ruler with fewest illusions.

PHILIP Mansel

Hussein bin Thiol- bom Amman 14
November 1935 ; King of Jordan
J 952-99; married 1955 Sherifa Dim
Abdul Hamid (one daughter,
marriage dissolved 1957), 1961
Tbni Gardner fPrincess Mtma,*'
two sons, two daughters; marriage
dissolved 1972), 1972 Alia Ibufean
(Queen AMa. died 1977; one son, one
daughter, and one adopted daugh-
ter), 1978 Lisa Halaby (Queen
Noor; two sons, two daughters);
died Amman 7 February 1999.

Lili St Cyr

Dorothy Middleton

A STRIPTEASE performer noted for
her on-stage bubble baths, Lili St
Cyr was allegedly a role model for
the young Marilyn Monroe.

Blonde and buxom, she became
a favourite of Howard Hughes, acted
in several films and ran a mail-order
business in lingerie. She was also im-
mortalised in a Rodgers and Hart
song when, in their show Pal Joey,
they wrote a speciality number for
a reporter who recounts an interview
with the most famous stripper of all,
Gypsy Rose Lea in which Lee.
noted for her intellectual preten-
sions, told of her thoughts while un-
zipping her garments (“Zip ... I was
reading Schopenhauer last night -
Zip ... and I think that Schopenhauer
was right"), concluding the song with
the couplet, “Zip ...my artistic taste
is classic and dear - Zip . . . who the
hell's Lili St Cyr?"

Lili St Cyr was actually Willis
Marie Van Schaack. born in Min-
neapolis in 1918. She adopted a
patronymic of the French aristoc-
racy when first booked as a nude per-
former in Las Vegas, having studied
ballet and worked as a chorus girl.
She established her reputation as an
eedysiast with a long tenure at the
Gaiety burlesque house in Montre-
al As the Montreal Gazette was to
recall in 1996 when the theatre re-
opened. “That midwinter night in
1944 was the beginning of Lili
St Cyr's seven-year reign as Mon-
treal's most famous woman, the
city femme jhtale, a person whose
name invoked sophistication, mys-
tery sin and - for many males -
instant arousal.''

Among the innovations she
brought to her act was a variation
in precedence, emerging on stage in
minima] attire then putting her

* Marilyn Monroe
patterned herself
on her - her way
of dressing, of
talking, her whole
persona. It was
from Lili St Cyr
that she learned
how to become a
sex goddess 9

clothes on. Sbe also played various
characters in order; she said, to
present herself in “interesting
roles". In her act Suicide she
tried to woo a straying lover by re-
vealing her body, and in Jungle
Goddess she appeared to make
love to a parrot She also imitated fa-
mous women, including Carmen
and Scheherazade.

While appearing at Ciro's in
Hollywood, billed as the “Anatomic
Bomb”, she was taken to court by a
customer who considered her act
“lewd". Explaining to the jury that
her act was refined and elegant, St
Cyr proceeded to demonstrate.
What she did, she pointed out,
was to slip off her dress, try on a hat,
slip off her brassiere (there was an-
other underneath!, slip into a neg-
ligee and, in the interests of cultural
exchange, execute a few turns of
Russian ballet Then, discreetly un-
dressing behind her maid, she

stepped into a bubble bath, splashed
around a little, then emerged, more
or less dressed. As a newspaper ac-
count tf toe time put it “The defence
rested, as did everyone else." St Cyr
was acquitted.

In 1955 Howard Hughes cast her
in the RKO film Son afSinbad, de-
scribed ty one critic as “a voyeur’s
delight" in which St Cyr had a co-
starring rtf e as a principal member
of a Baghdad harem populated with
over a hundred nubile starlets. The
film was condemned by the Catholic
Legion of Decency.

She also had roles in The Miami
Story (19541 and I, Mobster (19581,
but her best role was in Raoul
Walsh’s The Naked and the Dead
(1958), another RKO production, in
which St Cyr was Jersey Lilt strip-
per in a Honolulu night-dub and girl-
friend of a farmboy soldier (L.Q.
Jones! who proudly boasts to his
buddies that be has her picture

painted inside his groundsheet Alas,
heavy cutting of St Cyr’s night-dub
routine by censors caused some
choppy editing in an otherwise
finely crafted film.

Ted Jordan, who managed St
Cyr’s career in the Fifties and be-
came the fifth of several husbands,
revealed in his book Norma Jean:
my secretUfevrilh Marilyn Monroe
U989) that Monroe mimicked St
Cyn Liza Dawson, editor for WiHiain
Morrow, wbo published tbe book, told
Newsday in 1989, “Marilyn very
much patterned herself an Lili St Qyr
-her way of dressing, of talking, bear
whole persona. Norma Jean was a
mousy, brown-haired girl with a
high squeaky voice, and it was from
LOi St Qyr that sbe learned how to |
become a sex goddess.” '

St Cyr continued to do her
act until well into her fifties, after
which she ran a lingerie mail-order
firm in Los Angeles, marketing
‘•Scanti-Panties" advertised as
“perfect for street west; stage or
photography”.

“She was an extraordinarily

glamorous woman with a very, very

beautiful body,” recalled the music
critic of the Montreal Herald. “Sbe
had this wonderfol haughtiness.
After she’d token a few things off;
she’d half cover herself with the cur-
tain and say. ‘That’s it, boys. Vbu’re
not gettuf any more from me.’ ” St
Qyr herself said, “If one has morals,
they can't be taken away by me or
anyone else."

TomVallance

Willis Marie Vbn Schaack (Lili St
Cyr), striptease artist: bom Min-
neapolis , Minnesota 3 June 1916;
married ; died Los Angeles 29
January 1999.

IN THE mid-1950s Dorothy Middle-
ton was introduced by the publish-
er John Murray to some letters
written by the 19th-century globe-
trotter Isabella Bird. Out of them
grew Middleton’s passionate inter-
est in women travellers. The result
was the book Victorian Lady Trav-
ellers (1965), a series of supplemen-
tary articles, related contributions
for the New Dictionary of Nation-
al Biography and a large number
of lectures to audiences in Britain.

In 1959, jointly with AA Thomson,
she published Lugard in Africa and
her authoritative standing in Africa
was reflected in tbe chapter on “Ex-
ploration in Africa” in the Royal Ge-
ographical Society’s History of
World Exploration (1991). She also
edited a centennial reprint of Sir
Frauds Gabon’s The Art of Travel
(197 1). Her “well-qualified ladies", as
they became known, naturally led
her to the Royal Geographical So-
ciety; where she became a Efcflow on
the nomination of her brother tbe
politician RA Butler. The associa-
tion with the RGS marked a change
in the course tf her life.

Even before becoming a Fellow
Dorothy Middleton was invited by
the then Secretaiy and Director; Sir
Lawrence Kirwan, to become as-
sistant editor of The Geographical
Journal, a position she held for 20
years. She was soon appointed to the
society’s Library and Maps Com-
mittee and became one of its
longest-serving members. She
served on the Council U973-76),
was made an horwraiylfenow 097D
and, eventually, an Honorary Vice-
President (1987). Middleton was
one of the first women elected to the
Geographical Dining Club when,
(nearly 150 years after its foundatium)

it ceased to be a male preserve. Sbe
was also the HGS*s representative on
the Council of the Hakluyt Society.

Dorothy Middleton was bom in
1909 in Lahore, where her father: Sir
Montagu Butler, was deputy com-
missioner. Subsequently; he held
many senior appointments in India,
finalty as Governor of Central
Provinces. Together with her two
brothers and sister; Dorothy there-
fore saw much of life under the old
Raj. Something of the family's ex-
periences are recorded in Rob, An-
thony Howard's 1987 biography of
RA, Butler Dorothy was educated
at boarding school in Englan d and
went on to live in Cambridge where,

on his retirement her father became
Master of Pembroke College.

She retained a strong affection for
India, the land of her upbrin ging
During the war years, she worked
in the Central Office of Information.
In 1938 she married Lawrence Mid-

dleton. senior partner in a family firm
of solicitors. At their hospitable home
in Sidney Street Chelsea, Dorothy
welcomed many “adopted" as well
as actual nephews and nieces.

Dorothy Middleton had a deep
concern for the traditions tf the RGS
and its valuable collections. When
she spoke at committee meetings,
it was evident that members were
going to benefit from her common
sense and wisdom. As with Maiy
Kingsley (perhaps her favourite
among the lady travellers), “her
judgements were always informed":
her opinions, “her own and little in-
fluenced by current fashion". Her en-
thusiasm was infectious and she
added a sparkle to any function
that she attended.

She also had a great sense of fun.
It pleased her to unearth a piece of
doggerel from Punch when admis-
sion to admit women to the fellow-
ship of the society was being debated
in 1893:

JkHty an explorer? A traveller In skirts?
Tbe notion’s just a trifle too seraphic
Lrt them stay and mind the baues, or
hem our ragged shirts,
nut they mustn’t can't and shan't be
geographic.

The Victorian lady travellers
achieved their objective. How they
would hare relished the way in
JJtoch, through giving new life to
their adventurings, Dorothy Mid-,
oieton found herself a greatly ad-
ser “ or officer of a society
which sought to deny their entry.

W. R. Mead

Dorothy Butler, writer, born La-
to*'. India 9 November 1909;
"wmed 1938 Lawrence Middle-
tojfdred I9fi3>; died London 3
February J999.

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“this day, Brian Lemon. Colin Pur-
oroohjras among the finest of them.

imSmSSSS ex-wife, Maureen,

fTV 300 explained to a consul-
tanttoere that Purbrook was one of the
Pianists in the country Later
she told him what she had said. Pnr-

barel y aW« to speak,
cloaked “Five, dean Five.-
“The Grand Vizier of parties was
L P 1 ® Purbrook, one of the world’s best
pianists,” wrote the clarinettist Sandy
Brown. “He has what used to be called
piano touch’, which means that a skfl-
ful player can make the notes ring
longer than most by holding on to some
°* “ pm while laying others down: no
^ pedals. Colin is the master of that"
T a uniquely gifted writer who

didnT live to complete his autobiogra-
phy. But he left some vivid pictures, like
bizarre cave paintings, of his years as
a travelling jazz musician:

At any time during the Fifties and Sixties,
100 jazz musicians would be living in West
Hampstead, at least 50 of them at 4 Fhwtey
Hoad, or Bleak House as it came to be
blown. The overriding influences on the

auire of the address, so important as to dis-
miss all other considerations, were
near town and the road north.

Purbrook lived there, along with Tbpy
Coe and Brian Lemon, both of who also
worked in Brown’s band.

Conditions had achieved squalor of a sur-
realism it would have been hard to invent

glas s, the splmtere ^ (toqr j )3Dels and entfc

(singing a rainbow), Tbny Coe would flit
faultlessly through Barttik or . Timmy
Deuchar would write down musical figures
to show what brass ar ranging was all about.

Pmteook’s parties were always in ho-
nour of some famous guest, who, typi-
cal of the formula that made the parties
invariably disastrous, never turned up.
Coleman Hawkins and Stan Getz were
qftamongst them. Judy Garland was in-
vited to one and it’s not certain whether
she arrived, but certainty Purbrook
had impressed her enough when he
accompanied her on the piano to make
her want to.

Most of the incumbents slept on
mattresses on the floor The kitchen ank
was unique. Dirty dishes lived in its pood
for months, with the top ones being
washed as needed. Tony Coe, writing a
score, managed to spill a full bottle of
ink into ft. and after that it was impos-
sible to see below the surface. It came
to seem “that an ever greater evil
lurked there. You could get your hand
bitten off looking for a plate.”

His father was a professional pi-
anist and Purbrook began taking piano
lessons when he was six. He won three
Challenge Cups at toe Brighton Music
Festival of 1947 and went on to read
music at Fltzwilliam College, Cam-
bridge. He played trombone with the
Cambridge University Jazz Band in the
1958 Rank film Bachelor qf Hearts.
Leaving Cambridge in 1957 he first
'-joined Sandy Brown’s quintet on double
bass, working with it for a sec-month
.season at the 100 Club in Oxford Street -
He played piano in the Sandy Brown-AI
Fairweather AD Stars, staying for three
years whilst also working with other
bands. One of these was Kenny Ball’s,
where FJirhrook played trumpet, piano
and bass.

But his interests lay in modern jazz,
and work in the band on the Queen
Mary gave him a chance to hear many
of his idols in New York. Leaving “the
boats" he played mainly with the Allan
Ganley-Ronnie Ross Jazzmakers and

Brilliant piano, disastrous parlies

toured in Germany with the bandied by
trumpeter Bert Courtley in 1961. He
joined Charlie Mingus, Dave Brubeck,
Tubby Hayes and other musicians in an-
other Rank film, AH Night Long (1961).

After more touring with Kenny Baker
and Tubby Hayes, Purbrook returned to
“the boats” for Black Sea and Mediter-
ranean anises with a quintet ftathe co-
led with Tony Coe. Next he joined
Dudley Moore’s Trio on bass, and con-
tinued the association by leading the
trio on piano for theBeyond the Fringe
stage show that starred Moore and
Peter Cook.

Purhrook’s trio played on the first 16
broadcasts of BBC Television's Late
NightExbra and worked regularly on the
Tonight programme He was on piano
for BBC 2*s jazz series 625 with Dako-
ta Staton and the Keith Christie All Stars
respectively and was a member of

Sixties and when toe Ronnie Scott Club
opened often worked there as pianist

He chose, whenever he could, to pfay
with toe drummer Phil Seamen, whose
work be particularly admired, and he
joined Seamen’s Trio during toe Seven-
ties. Humphrey Lyttelton, always seek-
ing the stimulation to his music provided
by fresh thinking players, brought him
into the Lyttelton band in 1972 (he had
worked occasionally unto toe band dur-
ing 1968). and there he stayed three years.

Purbrook was both musical director
and arranger for toe 1966 Arts Theatre
production of The Three Musketeers. He
was to remain in demand for this role
for the next 20 years, spending a year
and a half as musical director of Bub-
bHngBrown Sugarin the Tfest End dur-
ing the Seventies before touring with the
show Hoc three months in Holland. He
was musical director of Beectam at the

‘ The most notable thing about him was his
touch on the piano . It was the most
beautiful touch, light as air. His solos floated ’

Benny Goodman’s sextet when the
clarinettist recorded a special gala
performance for BBC2 in 1964.

Joining toe tenorist Don ReodeU
the same yean he stayed for another two
years when the band became the Don
Rendefl-Ian Carr Quintet, and bad a po-
tent role in toe group’s now legendary
album Shades of Blue. In subsequent
years be worked most frequently with
Sanfiy Brown and Tbny Coe and with his
own quartet and octet As they became
aware of the quality of his piano ac-
companiment, many visiting Ameri-
cans asked for him, and he played for
Benny Carter; Chet Baker; Buddy Tate,
Zoot Sims, Mark Murphy toe Roy EI-
dridge Quintet Annie Ross, Dexter Gor-
don, Ruby Braff, Howard McGhee, James
Moody and others. He had been a mem-
ber ofRonnie Scott’s Quintet in toe early

Apollo Theatre in 1980 and of One Mo'
Time at toe Phoenix Theatre in 1981. In
1984 he was co-musical director of
Lady Day with toe singer Dee Dee
Bridgewater at the Piccadilly Theatre,
and he worked with CS1 Evans as mu-
sical associate for Palace Productions
on toe 1986 film Absolute Begirmers.Ta
1988 he was musical director and
arranger of Alan Plater’s Rent Party at
the Theatre Royal, Stratford East He
directed toe music for The Cotton Club
at the Aldwych Theatre in 1992.

Often in demand to back vocalists or
as a solo pianist he became an auto-
matic choice in toe Eighties to ac com-
pany visiting jazz stars, and often
recorded with them for toe BBC. They
included Kenny Davern, Titerren \foche,
Benny Waters, Teddy Edwards, Scott
Hamilton, Sonny Costanzo, A1 Cohn,

Gazette

BIRTHS,
MARRIAGES
& DEATHS

BIRTHS

MAUGHAN: On 2 February 1999,
to Jamie and Pundiie, a sen,
Angus William Sanderaop, a
brother for a delighted Ned and
Katie.

DEATHS

MORTON: Charles Wflltoa

Hearnt Suddenly (m 5 Ffebroaro

aged TC. Much-kwed husband of
Ann. father of Thomas, Giro
Jonathan and Crispin and devpt-
< 3 i grandfather. Family funeral at
JS* Helen's Church, Brant
^froiighton, on Tuesday U Feb-
' niary at 1 lam. MemonaJ service

: ...n u:~hw nn TiiMdnv

wished to the British Heart
Foundation.

aJn)E>* tun * Itar w «*■>•

BIRTHDAYS

Professor Avert! Cameron, .
Warden, Keble College,
Oxford, 59; Miss Rachel
Cusk, writer. 32; Professor
David Daube, Emeritus
Regius Professor of Civil
Law, Oxford University, 90;
Mr Osian Ellis, harpist, 71;
Marshal of the RAF Sir
John Grandy, 86; Admiral
of the Fleet Lord Hfll-
Norton, 84; Lady Howe of
Aberavon, Chairman, Broad-
casting Standards Commis-
I sion, 67; Lord Jakobovits,
former Chief Rabbi, 77; Mrs
Jenny Jones MP, 53; Pro-
fessor Ann Lambton, Per-
sian scholar; 87; Mr Murray
Lawrence, former chairman
of Lloyd's, 64; Mr Jack Lem-
mon, actor, 74; Sir Francis
McWilliams, former Lord
Mayor of London, 73; Sir
Kenneth Maddocks, former
overseas administrate!; 92;
Mr John E Martin, High
Commissioner to Malawi, 56;
Mr Alexander Papamarkou,
international financxen 69;

Dr June Paterson-Brown,

former Chief Commissioner,
Girt Guides, 67; Lord Rayne,
chairman, London Merchant
Securities, 81; Sir Richard
Southern, former President,
St John's College, Oxford, 87;
The Rev Dr John Tudor,
Development Officer, Hams
Manchester College, Oxford,
69; Mr John Williams, com-
poser and conductor; 67.

ANNIVERSARIES

Births: Robert Burton,
writer and scholar 1577; Gio-
vanni Francesco Barbieri CO
Guercmo), painter; 1591;
John Ruskfo, write; artist
and art critic, 1819; Jules
Verne, novelist, 1828; Martin
Buber; philosopher, 1878;
Dame Edith Mary Evans,
actress, 1888; Bung Wallis
Vidor, film director; 1894;
Tunku Abdul Rahman, first
prime minister of Malaya,
1903; Chester Floyd Carlson,
inventor of Xerox copying
1906; Lana Turner (Julia
Jean Mildred Frances Turn-
er.), actress, 1920; James

Dean (James Byron), actor;
1931.

Deaths: Mary, Queen of
Scots, beheaded 1587; Peter
the Great Tsar of Russia,
1725; Robert Michael Balias-
tyne, author of books for
boys, 1894; Prince Peter
Alekseyevich Kropotkin,
anarchist and geographer;
1921; Wham Bateson, biolo-
gist and geneticist 1926;
John Langstraw Austin,
philosopher; 1960; Sir Victor
GoDancz, publisher and
writer; 1967.

On this day: Catherine I
became Empress of Russia,
1725; the Great Frost of Lon-
don ended, 1740; looting and
riots broke out after a peace-
able demonstration in
Trafalgar Square by the

unemployed, 1886 .

Today is the Feast Day of St
Cuthman, St Elfleda, St
Jerome ismfli’ani, St John of
Matha, St Meingold, St
Nice tins or Nizier of Besan-
con and St Stephen of Muret

ROYAL

ENGAGEMENTS

The Princess Royal, Patron,
toe Baric Skills Agency,
attends the British Council
International Reception at
the Strand Palace Hotel,
London WC2.

CHANGING OF THE GUARD

The Household Cavalry Mount-
ed Regiment mounts the
Queen’s Life Guard at Horse
Guards, llam; 1st Battalion
The Dube of Wellington’s Regi-
ment mounts the Queen’s
Guard, at Buckingham Palace,
11.30am, band provided by the
Irish Guards.

Lectures

Royal Academy (at the Soci-
ety of Antiquaries, London
Wl): Professor John House,
“Perspectives on Monet
impressions of London”, lpm.

OBITUARIES/7

Psychotherapeutic notes

PAUL GORDON

Ethical chaos in the
consulting room

David Sinclair

Harry Edison, Plas Johnson, Doc
Cheatham, Harold Ashby Dusk Goy-
koviefa, Ken PeptowsJti, Bobby Shew, Bill
Berry Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis, Herb
Ellis, Barney Kessel and many others.

In 1990 he became resident solo pi-
anist at EEscargot Restaurant in Soho,
London, and more recently had the
same role at Kettoer’s.

During the Nineties he continued to
tour and appear on radio and television
and, despite the fact that he began to
suffer from rheumatoid arthritis in
1995, worked at toe same unrelenting
pace as before. He was able to do this
because of the unique skills of his con-
sultant at toe Central Middlesex Hos-
pital, Dr Bernard Colacco, a jazz fan who
often went to listen to Purbrook at toe ,
Pizza Express.

Despite major surgery and chemo - 1
therapy for cancer devrioped in late 1997,
he remained able to play until toe end |
of last year A CD called My Ideal that
herecardedin 1997 with the bassist Andy
Cleyndert aifo guitarist Cohn Ofley con-
firms the opimon of many of his fans (Mt ,
he was plying better than ever before.

Purbrook was never short of work i
and was featured at the Ealing Jazz Ffes- |
tival and at the Brecon Jazz Festival
both in August lastyear His last job was
at the Pizza Express on 28 December
when he accompanied the American
tenor player Scott Hamilton.

“The most notable thing about him,"
said Humphrey Lyttelton, “and toe rea-
son that any musician would like to play
with him, was primarily his touch an the
piano. It was the most beautiful touch,
light as aiq and his solos floated. But
apart from that, his interjecting of
chords or harmony into other people's
solos, would make most of those
musicians say that he was toe best
accom panis t in the business.”

Steve voce

Colin Thomas Purbrook, pianist,
bassist, composer, arranger and band-
leader bom Seajbrd, Sussex 26 Feb-
ruary 1936; married 1974 Maureen
Young tone son ; marriage dissolved
1983); died London 5 Fetrniary 1999.

IN THE world of psy-
chotherapy flnri cnnntiftlling,
toe word “ethics" is usually
used in a very narrow sense
to mean, basically, that
therapists and counsellors
should not take advantage of
their patients or clients - be
that sexually, emotionally
or financially.

This is, of course, impor-
tant and all therapists and
counsellors are required to
abide by certain agreed eth-
ical codes. There is, howev-
er a more important sense in
which psychotherapy is, or at
least ought to be, an ethical
undertaking.

The French- Jewish phil-
osopher Emmanuel Levinas
who lived from 1906 to 1995
argued that ethics was some-
thing far deeper and more
complex than just a set of
simple (or even complicated)
rules about how to behave.
For him, ethics was ulti-
mately a question of my re-
sponsibility for the other and
h is point was that this re-
sponsibility precedes knowl-
edge of that other. It is
something thrust upon me as
a human being. Indeed, re-
sponsibility is what consti-
tutes me as a human subject
lb use a word which Levinas
was fond of, responsibility
makes me hostage to the
other I do not need to know
someone, in other words,
in order to be responsible
to them.

Ebr Levinas, toe most im-
portant philosophical ques-
tion is not "lb be or not to be”.
It is, rather; how being justi-

fies itself. For Levinas, the
answer lies in responsibility.

One of the things that dif-
ferentiates Levinas's ideas
about responsibility from
those of others is that, for
him, responsibility is not
about reciprocity. I do not
do things for toe other be-
cause I hope to gain some-
thing, even if this is just a
hope that 1 shall be treated in
the same way, as in the
maxim “Do as you would
be done by”. Whether or not
someone chooses to exer-
cise her responsibility, to-
wards me or anyone else, is
their business, as it were.
It does not, or should not,
affect my exercise of my
responsibility.

It is in this sense, I believe,
that psychotherapy is - or
ought to be - an ethical en-
deavour. The psychothera-
pist is called upon to be
responsible to the other who
has sought help and, of
course, the therapeutic rela-
tionship is not a reciprocal
one. As in life in general
we cannot know in advance
what the content of our re-
sponsibility to the other will
be, what demands it will
place upon us. The exact na-
ture of our responsibility will
depend on the particular cir-
cumstances. Codes and rules
are therefore of limited value
Above afl, we have to be open
to the other.

What does this openness
mean? For a start it means
abandoning a great deal of
what we think of as knowl-
edge, for such knowledge

(or presumed knowledge)
is questionable. This is par-
ticularly relevant to psycho-
therapists' theories about
personality and mental
suffering.

There is a place for these
when they are offered as pos-
sible stories which might be
helpful to individuals trying to
come to leans with their sit-
uation. Bui when they are
held out as supposed truths
about the human condition,
we are on dangerous ground
The danger then is that ad-
herence to a theoretical
position or way of under-
standing gets in the way.
not only of seeing what is be-
fore us, someone unique,
utterly differenl but also of
being with them. It reduces
people to types, to categories.
7bo often, such presumed
knowledge or understanding
is a flight from the difficulties
of uncertainty and not
knowing.

it is understandable that
doctors, when faced with the
chaos, confusion, disorder
and disease that we see in our
consulting rooms, should
reach for toe theories which
seem to make sense of it all.
And yet, all too often, this is
a certain violence against
toe patient and their own
uniqueness. This can be an
obstade in the way of a gen-
uine meeting which is what,
in some way, those coming to
therapy are seeking.

Paul Gordon 4s author qf
'Face to Face: therapy as
ethics' (Constable, £15.99)

Case Summaries

8 February 1999

THE FOLLOWING notes of Robert Reid QC, Christopher Ston-
judgments were prepared ertltmileys) far the defendant,
by the reporters of the All
England Law Reports. County COUft

Committal ramming: aid anorvSandwell

rwjiji juuCij. 1 : Metropolitan Borough Council;

proceedings CA (Evans u. Wilson J) 28 Jan

R v Liverpool Magistrates’ 1999.

Court, ex pQuantroUQBD.Div THE NOTES to Ord 21 r 2(1) of
Ct (Buxton LJ, Collins J); 19 Jan the County Court Rules indi-
1999. cated that if a plaintiff applied

EXAMINING JUSTICES had to be non-suited up until such
the power to commit an time as “the facts had been
accused for trial to toe Crown found” the court had no dis-
Court under the procedure cretion to refuse his applica-
laid down by s 6(2) of the Mag- tion and give judgment for toe
istrates’ Courts Act 1980 where defondant It was, however,
the defendant was absent due clear that the right of a plain-
to health but was represented tiff to be non-suited ceased at
by a solicitor, unless there suebtimeasthejudgededd-
were good reasons not to do so, ed that his claim was bound to
since s 4(4) specifically pro- fail, and accordingly a judge
vided that examining justices was entitled to to exercise
might allow evidence to be his discretion to give judgment
given before them in those for the defendant following
circumstances. a submission of no case

Michael SchoEes (Maidmente. Lixh to answer
erpooDjor the applicant: rteither the The plaintjffb appeared in person;
magistrates nor the prosecution Adrian Keeling rStrfr to SandtoeQ
appeared. Metropolitan Borough Council for

die defendant

Sport

Korda v ITF Ltd (Va the Inter-
national Tennis Federation); Ch
Div (Lightman J) 29 Jan 1999.

ON THEIR true construction
the words “any dispute arising
out of any decision” in s <V)3
; of the Tennis Anti-Doping Pro-
gramme extended only to
disputes as to the validity,
enforceability or construction
of the decision and did not
authorise an appeal by way of
rehearing on the merits.

Accordingly the ITF was not
entitled under s (V)3 to appeal
to the Court of Arbitration
for Sport in Switzerland
against a decision of its
appeals committee.

Charles FUnt QC, Paid Goulding
tBird & Bird) Jar the plaintiff

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THOSE OF us who sit
through the credits are
Invariably rewarded not
only with details of who
sang what but also with
names that no scriptwriter
would dare invent - or pro*
ducer allow above the title.
Somebody with a hand in
the sprightly Ante has the
toiler surname Posthumus
and the dismal Sex and the

Crime

R v Lubega; CA (Crim Div)
(S win ton Thomas LJ, Tucker,
Penry Davey JJT) 1 Feb 1999.

IF an offence was committed
by virtue of the fact that a
defendant arrived late for a
court hearing, it was an
offence under s 6(1 1 of the Bail
Act 1976. Although s 6(5)
provided that such an offence
was punishable either on
summary conviction or as if it
were a contempt of court,
that did not convert the
Bail Act offence into a con-
tempt of court

Simon Wiltshire I Registrar qf

Criminal Appeals) far Vie c^peflom;
Marcus Thompson < CPS) for
the Crown.

R v Sinunonds; CA. Crim Div
(Henry LJ, Mitchell J, Judge
David Mellon 22 Jan 1999.
WHILST THE culpability or
criminality of a defendant,
particularly in relation to
carelessness while driving,
remained toe primary consid-
eration in determining sen-
tence, the court was entitled
when dealing with an offence
which had led to a death to
bear that death in mind.
Although the decision in R v
Kmwec [1984} 6 Cr^p R (S)
367 was dearly valid in its con-
text and its time, it was not
of assistance to sentencing
courts operating in the
current statutory framework.
David Mason iWeiphtmans.
Birmingham) for the appellant.

Undue influence

Bank of Cyprus (London) Ltdv
Markon and anon Ch Div (John
Jarvis QC. sitting as a deputy
High Coart judge) 29 Jon 1999.
WHERE IT was alleged that a
lender had constructive notice
of a husband's undue influ-
ence over his wife, and the
lender, pointing to the wife’s
equal shareholding in a loss-
making family company,
denied that the transaction
was manifestly disadvanta-
geous to the wife, the fact that
the lender knew that the busi-
ness was run by the husband
with little involvement from
the wife put it on enquiry.
FUrther; the fact that toe wife
was at the husband's mercy
in the way the business was
run and that her only asset
was exposed to risk meant
that the transaction was
manifestly disadvantageous
to her.

Mark Whalctn rYana/cca Vaslis

Achillea) Jar thebank; the husband
appeared in person; Adam Sicirsky
iCamesi far the wife.

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THE MONDAY REVIEW

The Independent S February 1999

Warning: do not forget to read this column

I CAME across something in our
bathroom the other day which
has occupied my thoughts off and
on since. It was a little dispenser
of dental floss.

It isn’t the floss itself that is of
interest to me, but that the con-
tainer has a freephone number
painted on it You can call the
company’s Floss Hotline 24
hours a day But why would you
need to? I keep imagining some
guy calling up and saying in an
anxious voice: “OK, I’ve got the
floss. Now what?" As a rule of
thumb, I would submit that if you
need to call a floss provider you
are probably not ready for this
level of oral hygiene.

My curiosity aroused, I had a
look through our cupboards and
discovered that nearly all house-
hold products in America carry a
hotline n umb er You can ring up
for guidance on how to use soap
and shampoo, gain helpful tips
on where to stare ice-cream so
that it doesn't melt, and receive
professional advice on which
parts of your body you can most
successfully and stylishly apply
nail polish to. (“So let me get this

straight You’re saying not on my
forehead?”)

Fbr those who do not have ac-
cess to a telephone, or who per-
haps have a telephone but have
not yet mastered its use, most
products also cany helpful tips
such as ^Remove shells before
eating” (on peanuts) and “Cau-
tion: do not re-use as beverage
container” (on a bleach bottle).
We recently bought an electric
iron which admonished us,
among other things, not to use it
in coqjuncQon with explosive ma-
terials. In a broadly similar vein,

I read a couple of weeks ago that
computer software companies
are considering re-writing the in-
struction “Strike any key when
ready” because so many people
have been calling to say they
can’t find the “Any” key.

Untfl a fevf days ago I would
have chortled richly at people
who need this sort of guidance,
but then three things happened
that made me modify my views.

first I read in the paper how
John Smoltz, a pitcher for the At-
lanta Braves baseball team,
showed up for training with a

painful red welt across his chest
and, when pressed, sheepishly
admitted he had tried to iron a
shirt while he was wearing it

Second, although I have never
done anything quite so foolish as
that it was only because I had
not thought of it

Third, and perhaps most con-
clusively, two nights ago I went
out to run two small errands -
specifically to buy some pipe to-
bacco and post some letters. I
bought the tobacco, carried it
straight across the street to a let-
ter box, opened the fid and de-
posited it I won’t tell you how far
I walked before it dawned on me
that this was not a 100 per cent
correct execution of my original

plans .

You see my problem. People
who need labels on pQlarhaxes
saying “Not for deposit of tobac-
co or other personal items” cant
very well smirk at others, even
those who iron their chests or
have to seek lathering advice
from a shampoo hotline.

I mentioned all this at dinner
the other night and was appalled
to see the enthusiasm with which

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BRYSON’S ■

AMERICA

all the members of the family
began suggesting that
would be particularly apt for me,
such as “Caution: when door
says Tull’, if s absolutely no use
pushing” and “Warning: do not
attempt to remove sweater over
head while wanting among chairs
and tables* A particular
favourite was “Caution: ensure
that shirt buttons are in correct
holes before leaving bouse”. This
went on for some hours.

I concede that I am somewhat
inept with regard to memory
personal grooming, walking
through tow doorways, and much
else, but the thing is, it's my

genes. Allow me to explain.

I recently tore out of the news-
paper an article concerning a
study at the University of Michi-
gan, or perhaps it was the Uni-
versity of Minnesota (at any rate,
it was somewhere cold with
“Un i vers i ty” in the title), which
found that absent-mindedness is
a genetically inherited trait I pul
it in a file marked “Absent-Mind-
edness” and, of course, immedi-
ately mislaid the file.

In searching for it I found an-
other file mtriguingly marked
“Genes and So On”, which is just
as interesting and - here was the
lucky part - not altogether irrele-
vant. In it I found a copy of a re-
port from the 29 November 1996
issue of the journal Science enti-
tled “Association of Anxiety-relat-
ed Traits with a Polymorphism in
the Serotonin Transporter Gene
Regulatory Region". Now, to be
frank, I don’t follow polymor-
phism in serotonin or trans-
porters as closely as I ought at
least not during sea-

son, but when I read “By regulat-
ing foe TwagnitnA * and duration
of serotonergic responses, the 5-

HT transporter (5-HTD is cen-
tral to the fine-tuning of brain
serotonergic eurotransmission,’’
I thought, Hey, these fellows
could be on to something.

The upshot of the study is that

scientists have located a gene
(specifically gene SLC6A4 on
chromosome 17ql2, in case you
want to experiment at home)
which determines whether you
are a boro worrier or not Tb be
precise, if you have a long ver-
son of the SLC6A4 gene, you are
very probably easy-going and
serene, whereas if you have the

short version, you can’t leave
home without saying at some
point: “Stop the car. I think I left

the bath water running.”

What tois mp-ans is that if you
are not a born worrier then you
have nnthing to worry about
(though, of course, you wouldn't
be worrying anyway), whereas if

you are a worrier by nature there

is nothing you can do about it, so
you may as well stop worrying,
except, of course, you can’t Now
put this together with the find-
ings about absent-mindedness at
toe University of Somewhere

Cold, and I think you can see that
our genes have a great deal to
answer for.

Here’s another interesting
fact from my “Genes and So On”
file. According to Richard
Dawkins in The Blind Watch-
maker, each one of the 10,000 hO-
U m i cells in the human body
contains more genetic informa-
tion than the entire Encyclopae-
dia. Britamrica land without
sending a salesman to your
door), yet it appears that 90 per
cent of all our genetic material
doesn’t do anything at all. It just
sits there, like Uncle Fred and
Aunt Murid when they drop by
on a Sunday.

From this I believe we can
draw four important conclusions,
namely: 1) Even though your
genes don’t do much they can let
you down in lots of embarrassing
ways; 2) always post your letters
first, then buy the tobacco; 3)
never promise a list of four
things if you can't remember the
fourth one, and 4)..-

* Votes from a Big Country ’ by
BUI Bryson tVoubleday, £1639).

V

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Volkswagen has updated its most famous car, but are the punters suffering from nostalgia or infantilism? By Geoff Nicholson

Beetle-mania,

Nineties-style

THE VW Beetle is a major 20th-century
icon. But what is it an Icon of? Hitter's vision
of a mobilised Germany? The Californian
myth of love on the road? Qi; in the moment
of its second coming; does it stand for the
continued failure of a generation to put
away childish things ?

When 1 was in Newlforka fe w y e ar s ago
promoting a novel of mine called StiflLife
With WOmoagens, a local photographer
and I set off to find an old VW Beetle so I
could be posed in front of it fin* an author
pic. It was a tong, frustrating aftertoon, and
I thought this was strange because rd been
to America plenty of times before and there
had always seemed to be a Beetle on every
street corner They seemed absolutely
all-American. But toe truth was, Fd most-
ly visited California and the desert south
west These, it appeared, were Beetle
places. New Vbrk obviously was not
life did eventually finda Beetle, and lateq
when I started living in New York, I met
'one or two people who owned or had owned
Beetles. Lesley for instance, used to have
a “triple white" Beetle convertible -that’s
one with a white body; interior and hood.
It hadn't been a success. The hood hadn’t
offered enough security. People would
break into the car while it was parked and
use it as a toilet, and the final straw came
when she left it fora couple of days, then
returned to find that some street person
had made his home in the back seat
I learnt to live with the idea Oat New
York just wasn’t a Beetle land of town. I'd
see the occasional one, but they were a rar-
ity, and toe whole thing about Beetles is that
they’re supposed to be ubiquitous. Seeing
one isn't supposed to be an event Then one
day I was walking down Fifth Avenue and
I saw this strange little Mack bubble of a
car driving along; land of retro, kind of
futuristic. Of course, I knew what itwas be-
cause I follow these things, but that didn’t
make it any I ess surprising or shocking or
pleasing Coming at me was one of the
much-vaunted, rauch-talked-about New
Beetles, Volkswagen's end-of-the-
millennium rethink of the old
favourite, a car that one of its
designers. Freeman Thomas,
described as “warm Bauhaus".

It looked very much like a New
York car. It was something to do

with the contrast between this vehicle that
was all curves and flow, and the geometry
of straight roads and vertical skyscrapers.
I was very glad to see it

A lot ofNewYbrkers apparently feel the
same. The New Beetles have invaded the
city, although not quite at toe rate many
would-be purchasers would like. Waiting
lists at the dealerships are long, and when
your car arrives toe chances are that it
won’t be in toe colour you ordered. Every-
body wants yellow or silver, Volkswagen
appears to want you to have white. People
are taking what they can get Esther that,
or they answer an ad in The New York
Times offering one at a $5,000 premium.

Of course, the New Beetle is fay no
means onlya New York can They’re madly
popular in California, naturally and there’d
be plenty of people who’d buythem in
Britain if only VW would pull its finger out
and make a right-hand-drive version. It
says its wtoking on it, but keeps postponing
it Tfou sense the company stage-manag-
ing demand. People always want things
toey know toey can’t have. The consume*
is being manipulated. And yet in another
way, the New Beetle looks like a mqjor
triumph for consumer power

The car started fife as the Concept One,
a design exercise that first appeared at the
1994 Detroit Auto Show. It was a product
ofVW’s California Design Studio, and was
neve* really intended to go into production;
it was just a bit of window-dressing, some-
thing to attract toe punters to toe stand.
However; having been attracted they were
far more interested in the Concept One
than in any of the VW cars they could boy.
Something had to give.

Motor manufacturers are happy to give
toe public what it wants, so long as it hap-
pens to be what the manufacturers want
too. Besides, industry wisdom has it that
what people
say

they want is very different from what they
really want Nobody ever felt any over-
whelming emotional response towards
the Ford Escort or the Toyota Corolla, yet
they shifted by the million. The other side
is that people lie through their teeth about
these things. They say they care about
safety when all they really care about is
acceleration and aggressive styling. They
soy how much they care about the envir-
onment and then they go and buy petrol-
guzzling, four-wheel-drive monsters.

However; there's no doubt that plenty
of people are sincere about lilting and want-
ing to bqy the New Beetle, and they always
say there are three reasons for this: that
it’s cute, that it’s fun, and that it reminds
than of the old Beetle. I think there’s a cer-
tain amount of double-think in all this. First
I’m not sure just how cute the old Beetle
is. It’s always been easy to find people who
found it profoundly ugly inducting VW ap-
parently, since one of their early advertis-
ing slogans was “Ugly is only skin deep".

And fun? WfeU you could take an old
Beetle, and paint it up and mate it look as
though it might be a fun car; but it was
never much hmtodrive.lt was a nightmare
going round tight bends and lethal in a
crosswind; and if you ever tried to do com-
paratively ample things such as change the
battery or a brake cahle you pretty much
had a definition of “no huf right there. The
old Beetle was (jrirky eccentric the engine
was in the wrong place; the pedals seemed
to be in the wrong place; rear visibility was
thrfllingly dangero usly non-existent.

None of this is true of the New Beetle.
It looks different from other cars, but it
drives much like any other; say, Kte a Golf
Mark 4 m fancy dress, which is essentially
what itis; a custom body wrapped around
tried and tested, quirk-free mechanicals.

And that’s what makes its cosmetic
resemblance to toe old Beetle so intrigu-
ing. The punters seem to be transferring
to the New Beetle some powerful and pro-
found feelings we have about the old
version - feelings that have been
developed by seeing the cars on
every street corner; reading those
fabulously in venti v e ads from the
Sixties, seeing them driven by
hippies, seeing them driven on
water (they float), seeing the

Mixing old and new: people who want to boy the New Beetle say it reminds them of the original

notoriously anthropomorphic Herbie
movies. M’s a form of product loyalty a form
of nostalgia - also, perhaps, a form of

The New Beetle is designed to be liked.
No manufacturer designs a car that’s
actively meant to be hated, but there’s
something curiously toy-like and frivolous
about toe New Beetle. I wonder whether
this is part of the continuing infantilism of
us Baby Boomers, a disinclination to grow
up, a refusal to put away childish things.

Last month I was at a VW show in a field
in upstate New York; a hundred or so
Beetles of all sorts, from Fifties split-screen
models up to New Beetles bought the

previous week. The New Beetles looted
fine, but they somehow looted too simple,
too designerish. They lacked history and
patina, whkh are toe very tilings that draw
people to the original Beetle. This is not
really a complaint, but there was a distinct
coolness between toe two sets of owners.
Tte New Beette brigade were over one side
of tiie field, and they were forced to keep
themselves to themselves, which, admit-
tedly, they were perfectly happy to do.

One thing’s for sure; in toe numbers
game toe New Beetle will never compete
with the old one, simply because the world
has changed too much. Single models just
don't sell in those quantities any more, and

nobody really wants them to. Put it this way
Volkswagen is aiming to sell about 50,000
New Beetles this yean at which rate it will
take more or less 400 years before it gets
anywhere near matching toe sales figures
of the original Beetle. More than 22 million
of them have been produced, and there’s
a factory in Mexico still turning them out
today. That’s an impossible act to follow.
The New Beetle, I suspect, will come to be
seen as a footnote to toe ori ginal, but as
footnotes go, it’s a good 'un.

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why you hit me. But why did yon
havetohitmesohard?Tknow
the answer to that I wasn’t hit-
tin g him on my own behalf, but
on behalf of other people. That’s
how I understood it after toe
event Here was a man going
around saying this kind of thing,
and I found what he was saying
profoundly offensive to miHions
of other people, to the dead.”
My strength is as the
strength of ten, in other words,
because my heart is pure. But
had he enjoyed the violence?
Was he a real bastard at
school? “No, no. I even refused
to join the Army cadet force. I
was 14 or 15, long before I was
a conscientious objector I saw
it as structured violence. I just
wasn't that type of tough guy.”
How did he feel about re-
venge? Once you’ve extradited
Pinochet, tried him and con-
victed him, what then? What’s
toe correct behaviour towards
toe top brass of the Khmer
Rouge who, at a press confer-

ence last week, when asked
about the murder of ID million
Cambodians, said, “Yeah.
Right Sony about that”?

“I'm more interested in the
proper observance of inter-
national law, if there is such a
thing, because pure revenge
has no bounds, no structure.
That’s why the initial triumph
of the House of Lords’ decision
about Pinochet’s extradition
was so inspiring, before it was
absurdly overthrown because of
Lord Hoffman’s association
with Amnesty International It
was laughable, and disgracefiiL
So he's a member of Amnesty?
So should we all be!”

What would he do with
Pinochet? “The central thing fa
recognition. People in places
like Chile and Argentina and
Uruguay and Brazil -the moth-
ers of toe disappeared - they
want these crimes to be ac-
knowledged. You don't have to
String up old Pinochet No, you
say. ‘Look, Pinochet, this is
what you did. Basically you're

a loathsome, vile mass mur-
derer Stand there and listen to

this, then you can fuck off.’”

You must admit Harold Pin-

the language of international re-
lations. But he is pretty bracing
company altogether He is sWy
mocking of his chum Stop-
pard’s new movie screenplay
(“Did you see Shakespeare in
Dnx? Shakespeare’s always
running like hell through
market-places and towns. I
never knew he was a 200-yard
sprinter. This was a revelation
to me. Apparently he could run
the arse off anjfoody.") He is
mmopressed by current liter-
ary jostlings (“The position of
Poet Laureate means nothing
to me. I don’t give a shit who
gets it") He tells stories about

stalkers -such as the time he,
Tbd Hughes and John Osborne
were all harangued by a “Cali-
rornian” feminist sect, who ac-
cused them of killing their first

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he’s turned a Karen Biixen
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into a screenplay to be pro-
duced by Julia Ormond. And
two of his plays. Ashes to Ashes
and The Hothouse, start shortly
in New %rk He is exhaustingly
busy- productive, engagi.

And he wants to mate sure
toe quotations in this piece are
separate, to avoid any more
“Pinter Theatre” ataminafims-
I say let me ringyou to-
morrow to discuss it “Sorru he

says, “I’ll be in Trafalgar
Square, making a short speech
about the persecution of the
Kurds in Tirkey.”

So Mr Pinter goes on, taking
baymater swings, on behalf of
oppressed world, at the
hasty City g ra t in the Sloane
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views; Colin carries on further along
one line of thought than anyone rve
ever met I found this exciting. He hag
the m ost amazing insights, tmri ic now
writing a book about the philosophy of
health. We've both always questioned
things and built our own systems,
ethics and moralities.

About lOyears into oirrebtinnsfaip.
^ his business went bankrupt and sud-

* denly he had no income. He got quite

depressed and really lost confidence.
Then I got a job at Swansea Univers-
ity and became the main breadwinner
It was around that time things start-
ed to get difficult, and I thinir he
began to feel quite powerless.

The problems built up gradually-,
Coiin can be impetuous and, in some
ways, excessive. It slowly became
worse, We’d have loads of major argu-
ments about trivial issues, and he’d

He didn't hit me often, and when h e
did the bruises weren't terribly obvi-
ous. I do remember pnw^ though,
being in a shop changing-room with
my stepdaughter She noticed this big
green-blue bruise on my thigh and
asked, “How did you do that?” I
replied, ‘Your dad kicked me.” She
wasn't realty feat surprised -Cohn had
been in a much more violent rela-
tionship with his previous wife.

Occasional^ though not frequency
Colin would thump or kick me. He’d
also throw things. He would lose.con-
^ trolaiHn would cry and hide my face,
dp The fear used to be with me all the
time and affected every aspect of our
relationship. There was a phase when
I thought that I would have to leave.
That's when I went to see a therapist
who looked at the issue of Colin's ag-
gression and ray tear. We did this
amazing exercise that made an enor-
mous impression on me. She played
Colin and I played me and then we
swapped roles. When I p. red him I
was suddenly aUe to see Uuai. my be-
haviour - of not standing up for my-
self, and allowing myself to be bullied
- made Cotirfs violent behaviour more
likely to happen.

It was a wonderful breakthrough
when I realised I could control the sit-
uation. I had to show by my actions
that abuse of any sort is not accept-
able. If he ever starts to attack me
verbally I say *Tm sorry this isn’t
acceptable,” and walk oft You have to
accept that it can always be a problem
if you five with a man who has a pot-
entially violent temper It would be
,£l lovely if they coidd stop their temper
w but I'm not sure that they can.

Tm still having to cope with his pot-

entiaDy vicdent behaviour but becsoise

‘ I behave differently, it happens very

Arabella Melville says that her partner’s violent behaviour affected every aspect of their relationship

Steve Peake

rarely. I used to try to be whatever he
wanted me to be to stop his insults and
aggressive behaviour Now I simply
don't tolerate it

There is a strong bond between
Colm and me. He really didn’t want to
hurt me. He still tells me that Cohn
described his aggression as a pimple
bursting and the guis pouring out He'd
fed better immediaiety afterwards but
later on would fedawfol because Fd
be a wreck for days after the attack.

The biggest outbursts happened
about five years ago; we've moved on
since then. I can safely say that I'm
never scared of him now. That's the
biggest relief of afl.

Colin

I suppose ourrelationshfo came
to a head around five years
ago. By that point we’d been to
places most people never reach;
we'd lived in a community,
worked in business; been rich and poor;
and existed alone on a farm.

I think some of our problems
emerged when life became more
mundane. Neither of us was suited to
fanning fife, and it was tough. At
times I had outbursts of anger that
were beyond control. When you’re in
a very difficult situation your partner
suddenly becomes part of the problem
‘ that youte trying to solve. You just
have to burst out of it somehow.

We reached the point where Bella
derided to go to a therapist; a woman
who produced insights that Bella
found staggering. A major one was
how the dynamic of her behaviour was
negative and producing negative
things within me.

It was no instant revelation, and we
had to work at these problems for
some time. But Bella’s realisation
that she had to put down some mark-
ers effectively began to change the re-
lationship for berth of us.

I wanted equality for ha - to be a real
person. Our society tends to bring up
girls to be compliant women and

Bella got a lot of that when she was
young. Paradox] caflyrd be the one to
say, “Be yourself. Go for it Don’t wait
to he led.” But I couldzf t do that for her
. It used to infuriate me when she be-
haved so supinely. It was like adding
fori to the fire. It was short-lived, a
flash fire of adrenaline and insanity.

But I always respected her as a per-
son and I just really wanted the situ-
ation to change. I don't know what
explanation there was for my ag-
gressive behaviour; I was born in the
Second World War so I was familiar
with violence in certain circum-
stances. I don't think there’s any such
thing as a totally non-violent person.

When it came to the crunch be-
tween Brila and me, we had to look one
another in the eyes and ask, “Do we
still love each other?” The answer was
■yes" so we decided to by to solve the
problem. When a partner has violent
tendencies, many women can’t leave.
It’s simply not realistic, economically
or psychologically.

Because we've stayed together and
worked things through, Bella is much
more secure and I am able to look at
her metre as a person now. In the past,
I took on problems and got angry when
she wasn’t part of the answer Now we
interact more mutually.

1 always felt that what we had was
very special, no matter how bad it got
Some part of me thought, “This goes
far beyond us sphtting up.” We do get
on very well indeed; we miss each
other whenever we’re apart and we
spend a lot of time laughing and chat-
ting when we are together

Our relationship is still hard work.
Change is the most difficult thing hu-
mans confront When you meet a
partner you tend to think, "Tm set up
for life now.”

You've got to keep learning and
growing though. Nowadays, the anger
is still there but the difference is that
Bella isn’t a part of the things I get
angry about

INTERVIEWS BY EMMA COOK

BETH WAGSTAFF was 39. a dyn-
amic career woman, and bad
three children. Ruth Picardie
was 33, had two-year-old twins,
and was a successful journalist.
The two women knew each
other for only a short time but
they became dose friends. Ruth
had tracked Beth down after
seeing a note pinned to a hosp-
ital board and realising that
she was another young woman
with breast cancer

Before they met, both had felt
deeply isolated Their age, they
frit mattered. The majority of
women with breast cancer are
past the menopause. Only
around 7,000 cases a yean out of
the 33,000 who are diagnosed,
are women under the age of 49.
At Brih’sfiist support groiqx she
was the onty woman of her gen-
eration present, and she felt
that there was no one who was
addressing her particular needs.

Beth died two weeks ago. All
her friends describe her as the
epitome of a modern woman,
with a happy home life and a
career. When she died, riie was
assistant chief executive of
Hertfordshire County Council
having been a chief officer in
local government by the age of
33; she continued working
nearly until her death. She
leaves a husband and children.
Max, 21, Molly 8, and Ben, ?.

At her funeral 10 days ago, her

htishan/I .Inn T jnw nan askpri far

do flowers but for people to
make donations to the Lavender
TTust, the fond Beth had set up
to raise awareness of breast
cancer among young women
and pnmtte support for them.

“Beth had a huge number of
friends who frit there was noth-
ing they could do,” says Julia
Unwin, one of her friends. “The
trust was a way of saying to
people that there was some-
thing you can do. It’s been
amazingly successful"

Beth and Ruth had dis-
cussed setting up a charity to
help, but it was only after
Ruth's death in September 1997
that the project was realised.
The Lavender Trust was org-
anised under the umbrella of
Breast Cancer Care, a charity
already working to support
women with breast cancer

“It's a hellish Alness, how-
ever old you are,” says Beth's
friend Julia Unwin, “but to get
it when you have young child-
ren or might want to have
children and are worried about
your fertility - all of that
seemed to them to be a differ-
ent kind of problem."

Beth and her son, Ben

The trust was bundled on 1
May last year coinciding with the
puhlk^Uon of Before / Say Good-
bye. a book of the magazine ar
tides Ruth wrote in her last few
months. The book's publisher.
Penguin, gave a contribution to
the fund, which now stands at
£140,000. A flood of new dona-
tions followed Beth's funeral.

Already the money has had
an impact The Breast Cancer
Care helpline used to be open
from Monday to Friday: it now-
opens on Saturdays too.

The trust is paving the salary
of a nurse, Mary Pole, who is
dedicated to answering the
needs of younger women. They

have plans to set up support net-
works by telephone for those
with children, who find it difficult
to get out of the house, and thqr
are advising other breast can-
cer nurses with younger cases.

Maty says although the
numbers of younger women
with breast cancer are small
that is no consolation if you are
among them. The trouble is, a
woman in her twenties may not
relate to someone in her forties.
Alary stresses. Getting breast
cancer in your twenties, before
you meet your life partner and
get a mortgage and life insur-
ance, may be different from a
diagnosis in your thirties. In all
these cases, though, the sense
of injustice can be great

“Ybu can see in her book that
Ruth was quite angry that if you
get breast cancer in your sixties
or seventies at least you’ve had
a life. She felt she was denied
her future. Beth had fought so
incredibly hard for such a long
time,” says a colleague and
friend, Georgina Stanton. “She
said, This [the trust! wiH be my
lasting memorial’"

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Trust Fund cfo Breast Cancer
Care, Kiln House 210 New
Kings Road, London SW6 4NZ.
The Breast Cancer Care
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Psychotherapy of everyday life

A Paris cafe has become a forum for personal problems. By John Lichfield

ALAIN HAS a problem. His girl-
friend refuses to sleep with
him. But she also refuses to
leave him alone. She expects
him to organise her fife; she
kicks up a fuss if he spends a
weekend with his parents; she

cries when he tries to dump her

ItfThey have been seeing each
brother for more than a year He

desires her terribly But she will

not sleep with him.

“She’S, wefi, she’s just not
interested. She likes me above
the belt; butnot below the belt
She knows what I would like
from her. She says that for that
fend of thing, 1 should look
elsewhere.

“But she refuses to let me
leave her. She even has .a very

affectionate nickname for me.

What should he do? Alain is
a rather mournful man in fos

late 30S, prosperous, and hand-
some in a nerdish way He is
asking the question of jo
strangers in a Pans bar (The
men say “get rid of berj the .
women say "ravish her and
“what’s the nickname?”) But

mostty Aiaic is ~

Maud is categorical; dump
ifer straightaway. ^Shebasher
mind in one place and her sex

in another. That’s fine for her

but not foryou. Vbu have to get
rid of her. She's not your proa-

lem.'&uneedtostartthmH^

of yourself... pretty soon. 3^
find that can be a foll-time
occupation.”

Maud Lehanne is a psycho-
therapist and one evening a
week she exercises her pro-
fession in public on toe first

fioorofacafeoveriookmgthe

Place de la Bastille, fbr 10

francs Oust over £1), anyone is
welcome to come and share a
drink and reveal their problems,
worries or innermost secrets.
On if they prefen they can just
listen to the quiet desperation
and reassuring banality of
other people’s lives. Problems
with husbands; problems with
wives; problems with over-
amorous colleagues; problems
with grown-up sons and daugh-
ters who won’t get out of their
parents' lives; problems with
mothers who won't accept that
their children are grown-ups.

Maud, 53, who sits on a small
table, (wirlingatofaking-straw
in her hand, is a kind of bar-
room agony aunt; but she is also
much more than that Her
faumoun wisdom and compas-
sion have given her a cult sta-
tus among her regulars. Her
presiding philosophy is that
selfishness, within limits, is

bealtoy, even essentiaL “People
are like countries. If to^ are in-
vaded fay others, it’s because
they have made themselves
invadable... People who always
say tyes’ are not admired; they
are despised" She is also, on
occasions, brutally practical
bordering on the cynical To a
woman who feels neglected
and iisulted by her husband but
knows that her standard of liv-
ing will fall if she leaves him,
Alaud says: ‘Tfignity is a luxury.

If you can’t afford that luxury
too bad. TfouTl have to accept
things tile way they are until
you have money of your own.”

There are 60 people in the
room, both singles and couples,
aged from 20 to 60, equally
divided between men and

Share a drink and share a problem

women. It is, against expect-
ations. an educated, well-
spoken, articulate, prosperous
audience; an audienoeof pro-
fessional people and civil ser-
vants. In other words, it is a
typical cross-section of
Parisians in a city where pri-
vacy is-a religion,' where people
would normally never speak to
strangers.

Maud’s idea - toe Psycho-
therapy Cafe -is an off-shoot of
a long-established Parisian in-
stitution, the philosophy cafe,
where earnest people impress
each other with their under-
standing of Nietzsche or
Voltaire Haring visited one or
two such {daces, Maud decided
that most people would prefer
to talk about themselves.

“Someone would raise the
su$ect say fear, and then the
discussion would go into
learned abstractions about toe

nature of feaq without asking
that person ‘what do you fear;
and why?’ I was sure there was
a need for a place where people
could stand back and takeatook
at their own fives.”

Maud believes that it is toe
nature of big-city life, not just
Parisian life, that makes it eas-
ier for some people - even in-
tefligart, prosperous, well-loved
people - to talk in front of
strangers, rather than to con-
fide in family or friends.

see my role as being parity
a referee, to sum up quickly
how far they should be allowed
toga, to make sure we get to the
heart of toe subject, but also to
step in quickly to stop things
from becoming unhelpful or
damaging”

Towards the end of toe
evening a gaunt, krndty tooktog
woman inher late 40s, whom no
one has noticed before, makes

what is evidently a painful de-
cision to speak. Her name is
Pascale. She has brought up her
only daughter to be
independent and now at the age
of 23, the daughter has gone to
Spain and rarely contacts her
That’s fine, she says, although
she would prefer to hear from
her sometimes.

■ The problem is that since
being left alone she has stum-
bled into a series of disastrous
relationships with unsuitable
men, induding a down and out,
each of whom she has moth-
ered obsessively and then
kicked out Recently she went
for 10 days without eating, and
Was taken to hospitaL Her
elderly mother came to toe
hospital and mothered her in a
bossy sort of way...

Maud interrupts. She knows
what the problem is. Pascale is
an adult, a successful mother;
but she is still being treated like
a child by her own mother She
is caught in an endless moth-
er-child cycle in which there is
no place for an adult, indepen-
dent, self-willed Pascale. Is that
notit? Pascale, tense, her eyes
filling with tears, admits that,
yes, that is exactly it

Maud salutes her “courage”
in speaking up, but says that
her problem went beyond toe
scope of such an evening. She
advises her to go and see a
' psychiatrist or another psycho-
therapist Pascale, looking dis-
traught but already relieved,
says that she wifi.

A few minutes later toe aud-
ienre^patieatsftriends of Maud,
who were morose on arrival
leave in high good humour

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The Independent S Febru«ry_1999

The creation of the world’s first left-handed piano may also be helpful in brain research. By Michael Church

Making left hand music

M usic is a thing
we can neither
see, touch, nor
smell but we
talk as though
it were a feast

M usic is a thing
we can neither
see, touch, nor
smell but we
talk as though
it were a feast
for the senses. Chords can be dark,
and arpeggios bright; melodic lines
are smooth or jagged; we talk of
Debussy’s watercolour landscapes,
and of Dmitri Hvorostovsky's
smoky tones. AH lies, and all ab-
solutely integral to our pleasure.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum,
so do our minds fill music's sens-
ory void with metaphor. But music
can at least be high or low, can't it? '
No. because that too isa metaphor.
The relative “height" of a note de-
pends on the frequency of its vib-
ration, and has nothing to do with
its situation in space.

Moreover, this high-low notion,
when expressed in terms of a key-
board, brings in its train another
idea to which we are just as firmly
wedded Low-to-high means ieft-to-
right while the left band growls, the
right hand sings. Well surely that
goes without saying!

Oh no it doesn’t And to prove it
is a man with a piano whose key-
board ascends from right to left.
Chris Seed is a left-handei; and he’s
just created the world’s first left-
handed piano, out of sheer frus-
tration. “At the Royal College of
Music my tutors were always say-
ing If only your right hand were as
gpod as your left’ My right was
clumsier, which meant I had to shy
off Chopin and the Romantics -the
music 1 most wanted to play."

Ttoo years ago he tried a com-
puterised keyboard in a mirror
image of the normal pattern. He
found he adjusted to it remarkably
quickly, so decided to commission
the building of a real-life instrument
-a replica of an 1826 Graf fortepiano
- along similar lines. “People told
me I was mad, but I knew it was a
good idea.”

Just how good an idea it was
emerged recently when he took bis
Graf to a period-instrument fair in
Bruges, where left-handers fell on
it with delight He noted that
Oriental players were particularly
adept at it right-handers as well as
left “Maybe it’s because they’re al-
ready used to making this kind of

Christopher Seed with a model of a piano designed for left handed individuals

adjustment having to read at home
in the opposite direction.’’

Making the change, he says, has
fundamentally altered his percep-
tion of certain pieces of music, a dis-
covery that may have interesting
implications for rigbt-brain/left-
brain research. Meanwhile, psych-
ologists at the Royal Holloway
College are devising a project -
based on Seed and his seedlings -
to examine the way that old habits
affect our acquisition of new skills,
and also the way these new skills

may in turn affect the old habits.

There is a celebrated ocular
precedent for what Seed is doing.
What we see is printed upside-
down on the retinajmt our brains
inteipret it as the right way up.
When people are experimentally
given glasses that automatically in-
vert the image, they spend three
days in ocular confusion before
their brain can readjust When the
glasses are tnkpn off they stumble
about again until their brain re v erts
to the original adjustment

It took Seed two weeks to make
his initial adj ustment and when he
plays a conventional instrument he
must consciously switch modes, but
he now plays as comfortably in both
directions. But be is not a typical
case, whereas 1 most certainty am,
and when I try to pick out a simple
tune on the Graf I feel as though I'm
going mad. After a few minutes I
discover it’s easier with my eyes
shut but the thing still seems
deeply weird.

Seed laughs: his eight-year-old

son, who is also a left-hander; ap-
parently plays in both directions, as
do his left-handed pupils at Win-
chester College where he teaches
one day a week. Will this invention
make him rich? “I doubt it Ikwked
into the patent situation, but was
told I couldn’t own ri ghts because
the thing has no new parts. Fmjust
the pflot for an idea.”

Chi the other hand, be has
patented a simple midi adaptor
(available from Loughborough Pro-
jects, 01509 262 042) which wifi in-

Russel Sachs

vat any electronic keyboard. This,
I guess, could be a morale-booster
for young left-handers. Next Thurs-
day he wiD give a recital onhis Graf
at London’s Queen reiroiheth TTall
- Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and
ChopmTfcs win be a tripte coming-
out -for the left-handed concept, for
the rare Graf replica, and for him-
self as a piamsL Yes, he admits, the
evening will have a lot riding on iL

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Soul diva
shines

POP

LAURYN HILL

BRIXTON ACADEMY. LONDON

to GET the full effect of Laiuyn ffifl’s
show, you needed more than a passing
acquaintance with a range of musical
styles that traversed decades as well as
cu ltu ral divides.

As Hill took a break half-way through
the set. her 13-strong entourage juxta-
posedjazz with catypso, dub reggae wkh
rode and swing with gospel infusing
Brixton Academy with a boisterous
carnival atmosphere. This instrumen-
tal interlude was rounded off with a riot-
ous session at the decks where a pair
of DJs took to spinning records with
their shirts over their heads. But even
they couldn't outshine Hill.

After the monument to diche that
was The Eugees, Lauryn Hill has had a
lot of ground to cover in her quest for
credibility.

The FUgees may have made a string
of hits, but their hip bop prattling and
numerous cover versions had rap
purists frothing at the mouth in fory But
while the former Rigees Pros and
Wydef Jean went on to produce some
mind-bo gglingly awful records. Hill re-
deemed herself with an album, The
MiseducatUm ofLoaarynHiSL, which de-
lighted hip hop purists and R&B devo-
tees alike, and introduced newcomers
to the notion that rap realty could exist
with a woman at the helm.

This achievement was gracefully
by Friday night’s show. As Hill
moved between the mellifluous soul of
“Nothing Even Matters” and the em-
phatic rap of “Every Ghetto. Every
City”, the auditorium rippled with the
sound of her honeyed voice and the
cro w d were reduced to kindergarten,
kids waiting for their teadier to dispense
the next piece of wisdom. Hill gesticu-
lated with every word, clutching her
head, twitching her eyebrows.

But behind the unsullied sweetness of
her face. Hill revealed traces of bile.
“Some wan play young Lauryn like she
don^But a new thing test me. run fbrray
gun,” she spat fo “Lost Ones”, with a flash
of truculence that showed that the rough
did indeed come with the smooth.

Hill's pursuit of moral rectitude can
be exasperating - the finger-wagging
sentiments of “Fbrgive them Fhther”
made me want to sign up for the next
Cradle of FUta gig -but her air of right-
eousness was short-lived as the undu-
lating bass rhythms and raw emotion of
“When it Hurts So Bad" took hold and
the crowd lost themselves in soil’s
sugary souL

Fiona Stubges

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Uneven path to camp heaven

| I PERSIST in the belief that
Jonathan Harvey has more
| natural playwriting talent in
I his carapty cocked little finger
i than the majority of his hipper
contemporaries can muster in
both hands. It’s a conviction,
however; that continues to be
put to the stiffest at tests. Don’t
even get me started on the sub-
ject of his current TV sitcom,
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, a
programme in which the one
trutyfunqy thing is the helpless
laugh-trad: And now there are
the scenes set in a gay man's
idea of the celestial afterlife (all
fluffy white clouds and, blow me
down, Judy Gariand) that punc-
tuate Harvey’s latest stage
work, Husftahp Mountain.

As in Guiding Star, his re-
cent National Theatre play
which tackled the emotional
fell-out of the Hillsborough dis-
aster; the subject here is the
guilt and anger of the survivor
Suppose you had lostyour lover
to /fids. After six months, you

Theatre

HUSHABY MOUNTAIN

LIVERPOOL EVERYMAN

embark on an uneasy friend-
ship with a much younger man
who also turns out to be HIV
positive. Except that, as this
new troubled relationship de-
velops, so does the research
that has now significantly in-
creased the life expectancy of
sufferers. How would you feel
about that? Not unmixed.
Helped by fine performances
from Stuart Laing as Connor;
the survivor and Andrew This
Life Lincoln as the dying, then
posthumous Danny, it’s these
conflicted pangs that the play,
at its considerable best, ex-
plores in all their tragicomic
messiness.

There’s a simple but very
telling device in the piece which
allows Harvey to present the
“then” and the “now” of Aids
and its effects with an unsenti-

mentaity poignant parallelism.
Again and again, whether in
hotel room, restaurant, beach,
or at the flat of E-guzzling,
coke-snorting best friend and
husband (Rose Keegan and
excellent David Kennedy), the
new lover will retreat to the
bathroom (or wherever) and
Danny will re-emerge through
the same door; dissolving the
past into the present I could
have done without the tin gty
slightly supernatural music
that accompanies these tem-
poral shifts in Paul Miller’s
English Tburing Theatre pro-
duction. And it’s true, too, that
in the economy of the play,
Danny remains in Connor's
life only as complete memories
and not - as one tends to re-
member loved ones -as a still-
active presence in one’s head,
arguing and intervening (an un-
comfortable truth Peter
Nichols brilliantly dramatised
in Fbrget-Me-NotLane) . But as
a means of conveying the heart-

twisting unfairness of it all
this clever structural scheme is
truly inspired
There are sequences - like
the one where Danny tells his
friends he’s tested positive and
the dinner party unravels in all
sorts of chaotic, unpredictable,
painfully funny ways - that
demonstrate Harvey's gener-
ous and acute powers of ob-
servation. The price you have
to pay for this is watching the
haf fli ng ty inferior sections that
show Danqy awaiting entry to
spangly camp heaven. Fbr rea-
sons you would have to be God
to understand, the del ay seems
to have been caused by
Danny's estranged mother
(Elizabeth Estensen). Down
on earth, she’s in a mental
ward; up in the skies, she rows
a boat and thinks she’s Judy
Garland. Well which of us
doesn’t? AD the same; you wish
this clumsily integrated figure
would fell overboard.

Paul Taylor

Chailly’s serial thriller

IN ITS Festival Hall programme
■ on Thursday evening, Che first
of two this yeai; the Rqyal Con-

certgebouw Orchestra gave a

performance of Schoenberg’s
Five Orchestral Pieces which
lived up in everyway to the en-
semble’s International repu-
tation. But, for reasons that are
hard to understand, its form in
Brahms’s Second Symphony
seemed indifferent Perhaps
the problems of texture, rhyth-
mic ensemble and articulation
in Schoenberg’s trail-blazing
masterpiece concentrated en-
ergies in a way that the more
familiar territory of Brahms
failed to, or periiaps the ab-
sence of the famously respon-
sive Concertgebouw acoustic
for Brahms's warm fyridsm
was a crucial factor But, what-
ever the cause, the playing
lacked electricity and the con-
ductor Riccardo Chailly’s
sometimes rather sectional
view of Brahms’s flowing

Classical

ROYAL CONCERTGEBOUW
ORCHESTRA
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL
LONDON

dialectic did not help matters.

The acceleration that he
introduced to bring the finafa
home to its triumphal con-
clusion did not seem to flow
inevitably from what had gone
before, but was imposed from
outside the music. Brahms's
cumulative rhythmic and
thematic workings (font need
help of this kind. And what
were the trombones doing at
the cadence? Their final Mazing
fortissimo chord was delivered
at a pale mezzo-forte and let the
coda down most surprisingly.

Much of the rest of the
interpretation seemed decent
but run-of-the-mill and cer-
tainty not what might have
been expected after the superb

Schoenberg. In truth, Brahms’s
Violin Concerto, which opened
the concert did not augur that
well since the greatly gifted
soloist Vadim Repin substit-
uted a worthy gravity for gen-
uine fire and found a simil ar

response in his accompanists.

Rue Orchestral Pieces,
however; was truly splendid.
This extraordinary music still
retains its ability to shock 90
years after its composition, and
also to bewilder, judging by a
number of stony feces near
me during the generally warm

and riefaty deserved applause at

the dose. He main reason for
listeners’ difficulties was made
all the more obvious in Chanty’s
wonderfully dear unfolding of
Schoenberg's invention, We are

bemused, at the outset because

the composer plunges us im-
mediatety into the heart of a
complex development, or so it
seems, without the benefit of
bang introduced to the musi-

cal material in a more leisurely
style through classical expos*
itioa. Almost before we can
grasp the topics under heated
discussion, the debate is over;
and mudi the same happens in
the fourth piece.

But in an age that- through
cinema, TV and technology- is
growing used to taking in mac,
sive amounts of information at

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second and third movements
generate a sensuous beauty
that enchants the ear.

AD this was shaped and col-
oured with exquisite clarity
and understanding by Chailty
and his superb players, and I
was grateful for what could
sffll perhaps be viewed, after all
this time, as a brave piece of
programming

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I kiuk of some
words that you
would associate
with Britain in
the Seventies.
, . 1 Grey - perhaps

beige? Strife... yobbiitaesL

strikes. Dingy... dowdy— ter-

nble clothes. Three-day
weeks... Winter of Discon-
tent... party sevens... Led
Zeppelin... R>rd Coriinas.

What you are perhaps un-
likely to think of is sunshine.
The sun is always shining in
nVs new sitcom. Days Like
These, the British version of
the hit American sitcom, That
Seventies Show. Thafs party
because it’s all filmed in a stu-
dio (weirdly, the most Seven-
ties thing about this paean to
all things Seventies). But it's
also because this is a relent-
lessly cheery version of that
decade. It's a Happy Days for
the Nineties - a nostalgia
theme park full of Space-
hoppers, lava lamps and bell-
bottoms.

■Die year is 1976 - admit-
tedly the year of the great
heat wave -but the light is not
a British light— it’s American.
It is set in Luton, where the
central characters are ah com-
ing of age and hang about in a
garage that has been convert-
ed into a den. Does anybody in
Luton, now or then, hang about
in garage-dens? This isn't
Luton; it’s New Jersey or
Marin County California.

If this were realty what the
Seventies was like, Margaret
Hiatcfaer would never have be-
come prime minister ; Ronald
McDonald would have. ITVs
British adaptation of That Sev-
enties Stum (Finnish and
French versions are appar-
'entiy in the pipeline) is over-
seen by the US comedy
producers CarseyTOsmet; who
make the original in the States,
but adapted for British aud-
iences by two British writers,
Sam Bain and Jesse Arm-
strong. FbrmerwriterS'in-res-
idence at Planet 24 (they? script
the gags for The Big Break-
fast), Bain and Armstrong are
in their mid-twenties. They
would have been just out of
nappies in 1976^ -and here, per-
haps, lies part of the problem.
Days Like These is a sitcom
about Britain in the Seventies
based on US scripts and adapt-
ed by two Brits who were
barely sentient at the time.

u It wasn’t a problem,” in-
sists the show’s British pro-
duce!; John Bartlett, a comedy
veteran who produced Good-
night Sweetheart for the BBC.

4 “There were enough people on
the staff of the show with per-
sonal memories of the Seven-
ties, so if anything seemed
wrong, we’d correct it"
DaridIiddiment<firectorof
programmes at ITV, is dis-
missive of the idea that the
show should be a slavish re-
creation of the ambience of
Callaghan’s Britain.

“If s a sitcom - it’s not seek-
ing to be a social document"
he says. “We’re seeking to
have fun about our collective
memories of the Seventies.
It's slightly unreal, but I like
that Doesn’t the sun always
shine on the past?”

Liddiment calls the show
“ affir mative without befog
soppy" and argues that _ it
doesn’t ignore all the social
realities of the times. The

Decade of laughter, the stars of Days like These* (above) were probably not even alive in 1976 , the year in which the sitcom is set The show is a British version of
a US hit. ‘Steptoe and Son*, TUI Death Us Do Part* and *Men Behaving Badly* (from left, below) all made the trip across the Atlantic in the opposite direction

father of the central teenage
character; Eric, is a car work-
er on short-term working
(there’s a brief scene in this
Friday’s opening episode
where he expresses his feel-
ings of guilt about having just
purchased a Japanese car) -
but the realism is immediately
undercut by some peculiar
casting. While Eric’s mother
(played by the Philadelphia
Cream Cheese girl Ann Bry-
son) and father C&evor Coop-
er) are skilled working class,

their son (Max Wrottersley)
speaks with a public-school
accent Bbr the record, this cor-
ner of Bedfordshire suburbia
also contains a Yorkshire
teenager and a German ex-
change student The show's
weird sense of dislocation is
similar to l'TVs original — and
highly successful - attempt to
anglicise an American sitcom.
The Upper Band. The British
verson of the US sitcom Who's
the Boss?, it starred Joe Mc-
Garm as the ex-Tottenham

Hotspur footballer who finds
himself housekeeping for
Diane Weston’s glamorous
businesswoman. The show's
British “re-versionists” (as
they say in the trade jargon)
were American, and the
supposed setting of Henley-on-
Thames was pure Connecticut
Audiences didn't seem to
mind at all however and rTVs
next attempt to import and loc-
alise a US sitcom (again with
Cohnnbia/Tri-Star) was Loved
by %u, an almost word-for-

word transposition to London
loftland of the hit New%rfc-set
show Mad about You. It
starred John Gordon-Sindair
and Trevyn McDowell in the
Raul Reiser/Helen Hunt roles,
and was plausible but
anaemic.

“It didn’t get off the ground,”
admits Lidcfiroent “Mad about
You was sassy and very Jew-
ish. Loved by You was more
laid bade."

T.irirfirapnt rlorijre TTVs

“re- versioning” of American

comedies is part of some
grand design - a “third way”
between the BBC’s devotion to
home-grown, one-man-and-a-
typewriter sitcoms, and Chan-
nel 4’s and Sky’s taste for the
importing the real thing, lode,
stock and chain-smoking writ-
ing teams.

*Tm not doing this because
I think that the future of com-
edy is adapting US successes,”
says LiddimenL “If we are to
find pre-watershed comedy
success -and this goes for all

BRITISH SITCOMS AN IMPORTANT INFLUENCE ON US TV

TIME WAS when the
Americans couldn’t get
enough of our sitcoms.
Here are five British
comedies that crossed the
Atlantic.

Sanford and Son The US

version of Steptoe and Son
ran from 1972 to 1977 and

made the two junk-dealers
black, presumably because
an oppressed minority
would be more likely to be
running such a down-
market business.

Three's Company The

Americanised version of
Man about the House, from

1977. The landlord/landladty
couple Mr and Mrs Roper
spawned their own show,
The Ropers.

All in che Family The first
British sitcom to be
transposed to an American
setting was Till Death Us
Do Part in 197L with Archie

Bunker the US equivalent
of Alf Garnett A watered-
down version of the British
original, it was the top-
rated sitcom for five years.

Men Behaving Badly

Less raunchy than its
British namesake, the US
version of the laddish

sitcom was scheduled at
8pm on a Sunday It was
cancelled after 28 shows.

Cosby One Foot in the
Grave's US version had Bill
Cosby and his Cosby Show
wife Phylida Rashad in the
Richard Wilson/ Annette
Crosbie roles.

the channels -we are going to
have to start thinking differ-
ently, in longer runs than six or
seven. The American system
guarantees 22 episodes a yean
Their producers do it better
than anybody else.

The comedian Graham
Lfoeham, one of the writers on
Big Train and Father Ted, re-
mains sceptical. “ITV has had
something of a record for giv-
ing shows away, like Men Be-
having Badly, or stopping
shows half-way through runs."
he says. “Fbw sitcoms ever
arrive folly formed; they need
time and space to develop.

“I think the standard of
comedy is incredibly high at
the moment - there's The
Hoyle Family, Tm Alan Par-
tridge and Goodness Gracious
Me. It’s a bit of a golden age.
Bringing in American produc-
ers may work, but it is an act
of desperation when no des-
peration is needed."

Days IJkeThese' is cn Friday,
at 8.30pm, on ITV

THIS WAS
THE WEEK
THAT WAS

Lewd

and

rude

Ibday On this day in 1972 a
gig by Frank Zappa and the
Mothers of Invention at the
Albert Hall in London was
cancelled because of the
“obscene lyrics" in one of
their numbers. (Only one?’

Tomorrow At the 1892 Four
Arts Ball at the Moulin
Rouge in Paris, an artist's
model named Mona
performed the first strip
tease. IVoops were mobilised
to quell the student riot that
was triggered off by her
subsequent prosecution and
fine.

Wednesday Glenn Miller
received the first gold disc in
1942 for his “Chattanooga
Choo Choo". although the
first real million-seller was
probably Caruso singing
“On with the Motley" from
I Pagliacci. fo 1988 John
Gielgud trod the boards in
The Best of Friends, with the
longest role played by an
83-year-old.

Thursday Burt Reynolds
(above), the football er-
turned-actor-turned-first
male nude centre spread in
Cosmopolitan, was born, in
1936. He pops up, as it were,
in the recent film about blue-
movies, Boogie Nights.

Friday The music hall
mega-star Marie Lloyd was
bom in 1870. Her repertoire
included “She’d Never had
her Ticket Punched Before"
and “A Little of What you
Fhncy does you Good”. A
little of \riiat she fancied got
her divorced twice for
adultery.

Saturday Georges Rouault,
one of the few painters with
four contiguous vowels, died
in 1958. Beginning as a glass
engraver, he switched to
painting prostitutes, downs
and - purely imaginary, of
course - evil lawyers.

Sunday The first night of
The Importance of Being
Earnest was the place to be
seen in 1895. but pretty soon
being caught in the audience
of an Oscar Wilde play was
about as fashionable as
befog a Euro MP caught in
Customs with gay pom. If
it’s any consolation to the
ghosts of the Bugs Moran
gang, who were shot in
Chicago 70 years ago, the St
Valentine's Day Massacre
inspired a great opening
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SOMEHOW CARLTON managed
to pick up the video rights for
this drama, originally
broadcast by the BBC last year.
I suppose that the rnf
company shovels enough
rubbish down our throats to at
least recognise vintage fluff
when it spots it

Andrew Davies s adaptation
of Angela Lambert's novel
dusts off that hackneyed old
formula, the odd couple. _

Following the deaths of their
drives on the same day, Albert
Tfrnney, an ex-squadron leader
offers Tom Courtenay, a reared
milkman, a roof oyer fos head
fo exchange for his lodger s

housekeeping skills.

For all its cosy premiss, the

script doesn’t flinch from

renderfogtheemobmal

disasters of the widowers

personal lives. Finney and

Courtenay farther elevate
proceedings, nursing
lovely exchange® out of the

run-of-the-mill dialogue.

When your set provides
a rude awakening

I AM still trying to puzzle out what
Stoke Newington Church Street has
to do with U$ang 0 Bates's score for
Fine Frenzy, butfeeprogrammefor
its premia at Brighton assured me
that this “crowded road in north-east
L o n don, bostfing with human activity
and traffic” was one of his
inspirations.

Wefl. the sound of church bells
does come in at one point, inter-
rupted by traffic sirens, but there is
also quite a lot of irrelevant chat,
exhortation (“Get rpl Make moo^)

the Apollo Saxophone Quartet is

It all sounded pretty incon-
sequential, but in that respect it
matched Sbobana Jeyasingb’s

choreography only too wdLYxi can
see easily enough what she is trying.

to do, namely to mix and match a
whole collection of different move-
ment styles, although I assume
from the Irafian basic training el her

six dancers, all women, that her cwn

o rigins fo classical south Indian
dance (Bharatha Natyam) are stfll

Dance

SHOBANA JEYASINGH

GARDNER ARTS CENTRE
BRIGHTON

the starting-point, although they,
are supplemented by several dif-
ferent techniques.

Some of her past espionations pro-
vide the material for the otter new
work on this programme, Memory
and Other Props. The range of this
becomes dear near the beginning,
when one young woman first holds
a pose reminiscent of Indian statues,
then breaks from it to make her exit
with a gymnastic forward run. In
spite of this, there is too much
sameness in the pace; or perhaps the
weakness is rather that the dancers
rarefy relate much to each other or
to Alistair MacDonald’s ragbag
score, even when a voice is com-
peflingfy rapping out the rhythms.

foazrealheiantaanearberpiece,
the dancers of Memory suddenly
come togetfaCTfoakmdofganw*, and
the purposefulness of this shows up

what is lacking elsewhere. Fine
Frenzy is forced along more crisply
by Bates's score, but here again the
dances are notterribfycohedvaAnd
it struck me thdt after the excep-
tionalfy bold, expressive dancing
we have been seeing lately from the
Frankfort, Wuppertal and Birming-
ham companies, maybe expect-
ations have been set higher than
Jeyasingb’s careful, conscientious
but sligbtfy plodding team can reach.

However; even the most excep-
tional cast might find a problem fo
competing with Madeleine Morris's
ruddy intrusive designs for Fine
Frenzy. The curved sheets of plas-
tic, wound around with coloured
cords, which she has ranged across
the back of the stage, look pleasant
and innocuous enough at first But
after a while first one, then another;
start calling attention to themselves
by flashing lights in contrasting
colours. This distraction draws the
eye away from the stage action;
unfair competition that the cast
cannot really meet

John Perci val

Back to Hungarian roots
for an earthy Bartok

AT what point does fee child prodigy
hatch, so to speak, to reveal the folfy-
fledged musician within? At what
point if eves does astonishment at
what they can do become recognition
of why they do it? Sarah Chang has
been with us for a lifetime - or so it
would seem - but at 18 she has trufy
come of age. There is still the girlish
glee at tricky passages well-dis-
patched, but she has grown, and her
sound has grown, because now she
has something to say. From the out-
set cf Bartoks Second Violin Concerto
in Wednesday’s London Symphony
Orchestra concert she was surpris-
rng.Theopenmgmelocfywashearti-
fy even grufify sung.^ Wufelt that she
knew precisely where in the Hung-
arian heartlands the piece originated.

The folk elements in Bartolfs
music need singing even where
they are played. And Chang “sang"
them in different, often unschooled,
voices, with judicious use of slides
conveying very particular intona-
tions. The beautiful plaint that opens
the slow movement was an old song,
simple and unaffected, almost half-

Classical

LSO/SARAH CHANG
BARBICAN, LONDON

remembered. Chung lent it a prim-
itive sophistication - which is the
contradiction at the heart of Bartok.

* Most concertos set up their pri-
niary opposition between the soloist
and the orchestra. In this work, it’s
soloist versus soloist, realist versus
fl mnmAr Chang caught it beautif ully
She wasn't afraid to be plain, even
downright unlovely, while the fantasy
went beyond the merely cosmetic.
Sr Colin Davis and the orchestra
were big, bold and - wherever
necessary - uncouth.

All of which seemed like very bad
manners indeed fo the wake of
Elgar's Serenade far Strings (now,
thafs what 1 call capricious pro-
gramming). Not that there was any-
thing genteel about Davis’s reading,
or the enormous string band he
chose to deploy. It was a mighty,
sumptuous noise, but a little like out-
ing an essentially salon piece and in-

sisting that it behave like one of
Elgar’s butch symphonic works.

Beethoven similarly well-uphol-
stered. His Seventh Symphony
emerged like a heavyweight from
eight rounds with Richard Wagner.
Not so much “the apotheosis of the
dance” as a knees-up in Valhalla.
Even allowing for Darts's penchant
fertile bigger-is-bettec Napoleonic
view of Beethoven, large forces
(which Beethoven used in his perfor-
mances of this symphony) need not
mean dense and opaque texturing.
Little was revealed here beyond
the broadest outlines of the piece.
Double woodwinds were absorbed
into the string sound, with much
detail amply losL Ifthat great finale
is the engine-room of 18th-century
symphonic music as it powers into
the 19th century then I want to hear
more of the mechanism. Divided
violins would have helped to delin-
eate tiie rhythms, not least fo the
thrilling shoot-out fo the coda, but
the problem went deeper than that
Size matters? Not on this showing.

Edward seckerson

THE MONDAY REVIEW
The Independent $ Febniafv 1939

I t's almost five years since
the first newspapers
launched their websites.
The Electronic Telegraph
The Guardian, The Scots-
man, and our own Inde-
pendent have ventured
into the cyberspace with a seemingly
simple mission: to get the news to
us quicker using real-time updates.
Editors promised to keep us better
informed, thanks to hypertext, which
enabled journalists to cross-
reference relevant articles.

I also distinctly remember talk of
helping us readers to make our
voices heard via e-mail feedback,
which was meant to be published in
real time. Some of the bravest souls ,
on the editorial teams even talked
about providing readers with their
own space on bulletin boards, to let
them talk things out among them-
selves and thus bring back the con-
cept of a real community newspaper
Since the Internet was a new

NETWORK

Newspapers fail the screen test

medium, we were all holding our
breath, waiting for the cool thin g s
that newspapers could create, over
and above reformatting their print
editions. Great expectations ac-
companied the launch of every on-
line newspaper; and careers were to
be made in the brave new world of
interactive publishing.

Many system breakdowns and
budget overruns Later where exactly
are we with those visionary plans?
If we examine the first objective'of
getting us the news in real time, thei
I must say that it hasn't quite waited
out that way.

A test was the .Glenn Hod die de-
bacle last week, where the news
about his sacking broke at 7.21pm,
and it was only The Guardian that
let us know within 10 minutes. All the
other newspaper sites were only dis-
playing the news the next morning.
As this was pretty much the most im-
portant news that day, lack of real-
time coverage shows that the

concept is beyond the capabilities of
most UK online newspapers.

The second goal was to make us
better informed by providing news

m the context of cross-rderenced ar-
ticles, using hypertext links to peo-
ple, facts, locations or companies
mentioned in an article. A fine ex-
ample of such “smarter” news is
found on wwwmews.com or
wwwxdnetoom, where every article
is edited to Include links to relevant
external or internal documents.
News.com also provides "related
links" to a selection of articles from
archives going back several months,
providing the reader with an in-
depth picture of the topic.

Obviously, hypertext Unking of ar-
ticles is too much trouble for UK
newspapers. One must seriously
wonder why our newspapers even
bother to publish electronic
versions, if hypertext links are not
going to be pr ovide d in the body of
the piece, and HTML tagging is not

EVA PASCOE

Hypertext linking of
articles is too much
trouble for UK
newspapers

actually used in the way the articles
are presented.

The third goal of interactive
newspapers was to help readers to
be heard and contribute their views

through e- mail. The e-mail response
was to be published in real time and
thus enhance the spirit of commu-
nity How do our jmpers score here?
In general, not too good, as most
limit their efforts to providing an e-
maU address to the editor who then
may or may not choose to publish
them in the nest day’s edition. This
is a one-sided form of communica-
tion, but it's easier to manage than
a red-time bulletin board where all
the comments and opinions of the
readers are published instanta-
neously, thus allowing the readers
to contribute to the content of the
paper. A great example is again
news.com, where each of the articles
has a big ’Mk Back button, leading
to the shared conversation area
where all the messages from the
readers appear in real time.

Tim there is a Talk section in The
Guardian, but you have to go to a
separate area to enter it, by which
time I usuaQy forget wbat my com-

ment was about and end up quitting

the site. A real-time bulletin board
exists on The Scotsman, but skews
the interactive communication to-
ward the techies, as It only appears
on the technical section- The same
goes for The Independent Online.

However the Scotsman scores for
the use of cool tools that exploit the
interactive nature of the Net My
favourite is the Ehmily Notice sec-
tion, which has space for obituaries
or wedding announcements. It
would be even more useful to have

e-mail links, so friends and relations
could send a message directly to ttie
family nr person. There is also a live
webcam showing Princes Street in
Edinburgh, which indicates the traf-
fic levels and parking space (or
rather lack of it>, very handy if
you're planning to go shopping.

Finally newspapers evolved from
bits of paper nailed to a tree next to
the busiest market stall. Thus tra-
ditional newspapers are market-

places, but their interactive equiv-
alents here in the UK seem to shy
away from a bit of trading excite-
ment On the Son Jose Mercury
News site in California, you can buy
and sell used cars, get a new house
in Palo Alto, or rent a TV cheaply.
Here in the UK, in contrast online
classifieds are often out of date
and, more importantly, placed on
separate sites that are not always
easy to find.

All in all it adds up to a poor show-
ing bv UK newspapers, considering
the talent, not to mention the bud-
gets, poured into electronic
publishing. Lack of real-time deliv-
ery disregard for hypertext and a
reluctance to give the reader a
voice over and above a simple poll,
are all good reasons to rely on the
Americans for true interactive news-
papers, at least for the time being.

Mail your views on online news-
papers to evaw neiJcr.com

Bytes

ANDY OLDFIELD

MICROSOFT LAST week
scored an embarrassing own
goal in the anti-trust case
brought against it by the US
Department of Justice (DOJ)
when it was forced to admit
that its video evidence was
not what it appeared to be.
Throughout the week, a video
had been used to
demonstrate the software
company’s Safaris that
removing browser elements
from Windows 98, which the
DOJ says can be done using
a program written for it by
the Princeton computer
scientist Edward Felten,
causes severe degradation of
system performance.

The tape was introduced
into evidence by James
Allchin, a Microsoft
executive, as a rebuttal of the
DOJ’s case, showing the
difficulties that a machine
running Felten's program
had in connecting to the
Windows 98 update site on
the Web.

However. David Boies
showed in cross-examination
that the tape was not a real-
time demonstration, as it
purported to be, but was
made of scenes that had been
spliced together from a
series of different computers
with different system set-ups.

Microsoft eventually
admitted that the video was
an "illustration" rather than
footage of a real test. Judge
Thomas Penfield Jackson
said this meant that the tape
was no longer credible. In a
conference with lawyers, he
said that he did not believe
Microsoft had set out to
deceive him with the video,
but that Boies had done “a
very professional job of
discrediting those tapes”.

Microsoft was given leave
to perform the tests again in
the presence of government
lawyers and computer
experts. Allchin, however, did
not perform all the tests from
the original video,
maintaining that they had to
be done "under laboratory
conditions".

He did demonstrate some
bugs in the DOJ program
and showed that despite the
presence of the program, it
was still possible to browse
the Web using other
functions built into Windows.

PRIVACY GROUPS and
activists were not impressed
with Intel's offer of a
software patch to turn off the
identification features of its
Pentium 111 chip, due for
release this month. After a
meeting in Washington last
week with Intel about the
privacy implications of the
technology - which is
intended to ease e-commerce
by making transactions, and
a user's movements across
the Net easily traceable -
the Electronic Privacy
Information Center (Epic*.
JunkBusters and Privacy
International said they would
enlist the aid of consumer
organisations to extend their
call for a boycott of Intel
products.

Marc Rotenberg, director
of Epic, said that Intel's
software proposal was not a
tenable solution.

"The processor serial
number identifier would be in
the hardware." he said.

"Once it is in the hardware it
is hard to disable.” He added
that the groups had
petitioned the US Federal
Trade Commission about a
potential recall of the chips
Intel bas already shipped to
computer manufacturers.

The FTC said that it was
unclear what it could do.

“[We have] looked to self-
regulation to create a greater
sense of privacy, which would
result in more consumer
confidence online,” explained
Victoria Streitfeld, an FTC
spokeswoman. “Its a novel
issue that underscores the
need for consumer privacy
protections online.”

LYCOS LAUNCHED a new
service last week providing
lining to more than half a
million songs in the
controversial MP3 format
that is popular with music
fans, but which many record
labels oppose on the grounds
that it makes piracy too easy.

"We took a look at what
words people were most
often searching for online,
and within the Lycos
network, ‘MP3’ was the
second most often searched
word, after ‘sex’,” a Lycos
spokesman said

Although the search
engine, which will be updated
hourly to cut down on dead
links, wffl not distinguish
between legal and illegal
recordings. Lycos said that it
will work with the Recording
Industry Association of
America and do whatever it
can to combat piracy.

Meanwhile. MP3 received
another boost when the
GoodNoise website won the
National Music Publishers
Association's first digital
phonorecord delivery licence
for delivering tracks in MP3.
The licence covers
mechanical rights, and paves
the way for MP3 to be a
legitimate, mainstream
means of distribution. The
day after gaining the licence,
GoodNoise revealed that it
had done a deal with the
independent record label
Rykodisc to offer its music
for downloading at 99 cents
per track.

COMPETITION AMONG free
Internet service providers is
likely to accelerate next
month when Martin Dawes
Communications introduces
the subscription-free Breathe
Net using Unified Call
Management technology,
which allows members to '
access e-mail by phone
without a computer. The
technology also allows
voicemail, faxes and e-mails
to be collected from Breathe
Net's Web site.

The first aim of the
company - which expects
to make an initial loss - is
to win more members
than Freeserve, which
currently has more than a
million users.

Our schoolchildren are
still waiting, Mr Blair

Information rich: all teachers want are the tools to help them improve the way in which they offer subjects to their pupils

I magine my elation at being
sent a paper lay the De-
partment for Education and
Employment entitled Con-
necting the Learning Soc-
iety (also referred to as
National Grid for Learn-
ing: the Government's Consultation
Paper) back in those heady days of
October 1997. It asked for expres-
sions of interest by December 1997.

I've learnt that government pa-
pers are just as interesting for what
they leave out as for what they con-
tain. This paper had an enormous
black hole - no budgets attached and
no strategy for implementation. I con-
cluded that the civil servants and
consultants who had put tins together
were hoping that the IT industry
would come bearing gifts.

For my sins, I thought the docu-

Derek Wyatt, left, takes the Government
to task for failing properly to plan,
fund and put into effect the
National Grid for Learning

ml, kn-i T

ware and software systems over the
last 15 years, wasting billions of
pounds In the process. You wcftild
think someone in government would
begin to comprehend that a single -
co-ordinator in the Cabinet Office
was required.

Before we can do any ofthese IT
projects, we have to have a broad-
band strategy and structure in place
and it has to be property funded. We

i thAcn i*i m fa i Kiif n rt_

thought that, if Tbny Blair were con-
vinced of the need to deliver 25 per
cent of government electronically by
2002, the Department for Education
and Employment CDfEE) would be
dovetailing their plans with his. After
aU, as a government, we are also
working on the Department of Soda!
Service’s smart card projects; we're
over budget and woefully behind on
the ICL Post Office Counters project
then there’s the National Health
Services operations booking system
announced last week by Frank Dob-
son, the Foreign & Commonwealth
Office's intranet deal and so on.

Only last week, the Contributions
Agency said it had serious doubts
about Andersen Consulting being
able to deliver a My functional Nat-
ional Insurance recording system;
then, amusingly, the Cabinet Office
paid a newly privatised computer
centre £39,000 in interest on money
it later discovered was its own.

Governments have made too
many mistakes in the purchase and
implementation of computer hard-

other discussion paper is due shortly
from the Department of Trade and
Industry and the Department for Cul-
ture, Media and Sport

I visited Singapore One cat my own
expense! two weeks ago. We cannot
embrace the thinking behind their In-
telligent City unless we establish the
ground rules for broad-band The
National Grid for Learning (NGfL)
wanted to go round this problem. It

wanted to create a mosaic at a local
leveL Cities and counties would be
linked first, and then these links
would be drawn together into some
kind of national framework.

I thought this plan rather odd. The
Government owns the copyright to
the National Curriculum. It owns the
rights to the books published on it,
the examinations that reflect it and
any programming on television,

naj liL. TTl il

Open University’s funding was
agreed, the Government annexed
£3m from the licence fee to fund the
programming budget Currently, the
BBC’s education spend is £60m a
year; and its online budget is more
than £2 9m. It has arrogantly estab-
lished its own learning channels in-
stead of coining to the Government
to create the NGfL Amazingly, the
DfEE, according to a document

leaked to the Financial Times, is will-
ing to pay an extra £30m to set up its
own learning channel to supple-
ment the NGfL

Before we build the NGfL (and the
University for Industry and all our
Lifelong Learning Initiatives), we
need a national grid to be in place.
Once this was agreed, we could
borrow from the ITV system. That is,
at the centre would be the strategists

software. Tender documents would
be established for the publishing;
broadcasting (irrespective of plat-
form) and examination contracts.
These would have the potential to
earn huge revenue.

In the regions based on the map
of the Regional Development Auth-
orities and the Welsh Assembly
(Scotland and Northern Ireland fol-
low different curricula), further ten-

ONLINE OBJECTIVES FOR OUR SCHOOLS

■ Shelve any further NGfL
initiatives until a broad-band
strategy is in place.

■ Remove VAT from the
purchase of all computers for
educational purposes.

■ Agree a deal with BBC, C4
and BSkyB to create a NGfL
television chann el.

■ Start to put into place the
national hardware and software

centre on the ITV model at the
British library (space available)
or at C4/BBC/BSkyB or at Oxford
University.

■ Put a tender document out to
create the regional hubs for the
delivery o£ the NGfL the
University for Industry and the
Lifelong Learning Initiatives.

■ Nominate schools (Intelligent
Schools) with IT that are already

centres of excellence, and charge
them with t raining their
colleagues and upgrading skills.

■ Agree to provide free Internet
access to all our schools for the
next five years.

■ Organise UK-wide computer
holiday boot camps (as they do in
Singapore and America) to
improve the skills of our school
communities.

Peter MacxHarrnid

der documents would be prepared to
licence not just the NGfL but also
other electronic government ser-
vices, which would thus be provided
free or as-free to the Government

If this model were unpalatable,
then there is no reason why the BBC,
Channel 4 and BSkyB with, say, a
Yahoo! or a Dorling Kindersley,
should not be brought together by the
Government to provide the central
services. This could be funded in just
the same way as the Open Univer-
sity - from the licence fee.

All teachers want are the tools to
help them improve the way in which
they offer subjects to their pupils.
This would in turn aid the drive to
improve standards. Headteachers
and governors do not want large
Internet bills one year hence, when
the initial “free” trial is over Teacfa-

» o wumu uut uavt? oeea issued witn
laptops; you cannot see the screens
in a classroom and therefore they
cannot be used as teaching aids, ex-
cept by a small number of pupils.

Teachers complain to me that
they are taught on Pentium PCs and
then come back to school to their
388s. Has eveay local education auth-
ority undertaken an IT audit? If so,
could these be published, so we
know what the UKpicture looks like?

As I said in the adjournment de-
bate about libraries last week, there i

are schools that still quality as "in- >
formation poor" because of the lack
of property equipped and property
staffed school libraries. We need a
strategy that makes libraries the
centre of the Intelligent School for the
2 1 st century. We have been waiting
fof the Governments intentions with
respect to the NGfL for more than 3

yean I yearn for it

The writer is Labour MP jar Sit-
trngboume and Skeppey, and
Jtnxnaer and co-chair of the All
Party Internet Committee

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> j ^ s use -°f a £5,000 organ that doesn’t have any fun
| rh yttoi s ? John Shnttleworth is sticking to his trusty Yamaha

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I

n ipy current tour I ana the
resident organist in Kerfs
Karvery. Wherever the
theatre is, we turn it into a
carvery. IPs fantastic. I use

to move people. But the last
s w gigs we have had some funny

|>ises coming in and it seems to be

- - j e nnHermium bug come rather
- - u-fy. Unfortunately, I don't reckon

;nx can check the Yamaha out - if
breaks down you just have to take

f thechm.

s a child’s organ. I have trig flo-
ors. so I have to move them quite
irefiilty over the fun-size keys. A lot

Nit 'hoist®

iisy to play because you only need
5^ use one finger to get a chord. But
oi still need to know what finger to

it down. It comes to me by instinct
| m 1 must confess.

_ I have been playing my organ for
lite a long time, since I was made
^dundant from being a security
tard in a sweet factoiy. I got my
ilden handshake, and bought a
imaha keyboard. Not this one,
ough, an inferior modeL
Before the show, I make a little
usic sheet It will teD me Style 24
a slow samba, that kind of thing,
use the noises to make my aud-
nce laugh. There is one song,
len I go from qukktatrot to heavy
dc and stop and say. “Tfeah, like
LO used to do - speed up for no
ason.” The audience punch the aic
encourage them to get out their
liters and sing to the bar staff I
wqrft got any punk on the organ,
rt Would like to see pogo-ing and
age diving.

, It has many fun rhy thms that
I nke the audience chuckle. One
V >unds like a dog barking; a South
I merican percussive instrument
ways makes people chuckle; and
have a fantastical fantasy flute. And
Argentinian folklore. Ihaverft played

It's a child’s organ, but I have very big fingers’ Geraint Lewis

that one for a while; after our dispute
with the EaOdands, Iwas a bit wary.
But I think we have patched things
up now.

I have also got sitax; techno and
dance, for the younger people in the
audience. I have got a mooing cow,
asweH

Z have a midi - don’t know what
midis are, but at least I have got it
I am doubly trendy. If a big DJ came
down he might not be that im-
pressed, but 1 would defend myself
with some nifty moves. And I have
scsne veiy modern words on my key-
board, lite so I think these

young DJs would be impressed.

I ciose the organ because a gui-
tar would annoy your wife if you
played it in the lounge. With the
(Egan I can use the headphones and
she can still watch Emmerdale
Fhrm. But sometimes I do start to

make raspy breathing noises and
excessive saliva is produced, it's a
bit of a peril. I think it is from the
concentration needed to decide
what finger to use.

Lots of people ask me for advice
about what models are best The
posher ones just sound like a record.
I wouldn’t buy them, because I like
the fun rhythms.

The audience don’t take it
seriously- but they should do. Some
of these organs that cost £5,000
dotft have a man going “Ee-ya!" Kke
a cowboy.

Interview by
Jennifer Rodger

John Shuttteworth, oka tfie comed-
ian Graham FlzUows, takes his aR-
new ‘Kerfs Karvery’ on tour in
BritamvntaK March; COU0171-287
5010 far details

How to bring a little order
to the chaos on your site

TWO FORCES control our
universe: order and chaos. It is
the job of the designer to take
the chaos of information and
order it into an understandable
format for those wishing to
access it Effective design is
based on the principle of
organisation. Organisation
allows the designer to guide the
viewer’s eye to the information
he or she wishes to find,
whether that is text graphics or
navigation points.

The layout grid is a
designer's most effective tool
for providing organisation to a
design, giving consistency and
structure. The advantages of
the grid structure are easily
applied to Web pages using
tables and frames to create the
layout grid. If used properly,
layout grids identify where
specific types of content are to
be placed on the page and then
provide continuity between
different pages. This content
works to the reader’s advantage
as it provides consistent areas
on the page where he or she
knows where to look for
particular kinds of content
(titles, illustrations, text, page
numbers etc)

Last week I identified four
broad categories that any Web
design can be placed into
(wwwJndependentco.uk/net/
99CQ01ne/stoiy3Jitml). These
categories are based on the fact
that the visitor can resize the
Web browser window. After
identifying which layout style is
being used, we can then use
tables and frames to set up our
layout grid

The layout grid with
tables and frames

Before there were tables and
frames, Wteb layout basically
consisted of wide pages of text
stretching from the left side of
the window to the right' There
was no way to break up this
single column of content Yet
most designers - coming from a

Web design

Jason

Cranford

Teague

print background - were used to
breaking the single column into
more visually interesting and
organised grids consisting of
two or more columns.

Frames allow designers to
create a fixed grid in the
window, where each frame
performs a particular layout
function. Fbr instance, we can
set up a frame grid where one
frame always holds the title,
another one holds navigation
and a third is for the content
itself. Tables can also be used to
hold titles and navigation. In
addition, tables are more
versatile for creating a
standardised layout for the
content between pages.

Before you even touch your
computer to start your Web
pages, it is a good idea to sketch
out your layout grid and specify
which areas of the screen will
be used to hold what type of
content Consider how the
viewer will approach this page.
What information will it be
important for them always to
notice, and (with frames) what
content should always be
visible, regardless of scrolling?

Remember; just because
tables and frames force us into

a rectangular grid does not
mean that you have to confine
your designs to chequerboard
patterns. Don't allow the grid to
become a straitjacket to your
design. Break up the layout with
curved and organic graphics
that, while fitting into these
rectangular areas, create the
illusion of less straight-edged
designs.

In a previous column, I
discussed how to create drop
shadows around any edge of a
frame (wwwindependenL
co.uk/net/980720ne/story4.htmli .
This same technique could be
used with frames to place other
designs around a central frame.
Grothe Graphs (www.amug.org/
~ grothes/graphxJitmil uses
this to surround its site with an
ornate Gothic frame that will
resize itself to fit into any
window size.

Similarly, tables can be used
to surround an area of HTML
text with graphics that are
anything but square. First, we
have to make the graphic we
want to insert our HTML

content into. The green
IliY fines show where to split
this graphic horizontally
^Aand vertically. This graphic
f is split into two pieces: the
/ top piece (top.gib, which is
j everything above the
« horizontal green line, and
the left side piece (leftgif),
which is everything below the
horizontal green line and to the
left of the vertical green line.

Now for the HTML:

< TABLE BORDER=“0"
CELLPADD1NG=“0"
CELLSPACING^ “0“> <TR>

<TD COLSPAN=“2’>

<!MG HEIGHT =*“71 " WIDTH=
“300 N SRC= -top.girxBR
CLEAR= "air>

</TD > </TR>TR>

<TD WIDTH =‘66" VALIGN-
“top">

<IMG HEIGHT=“229"

WIDTH -"66" SRC="left.gif'>
</TD > <TD WIDTH =“228"
VALIGN^top^

< TABLE BORDER* “O”
CEULPADDING=“0-
CELLSPAONG =“B"
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<TR> <TD>Your Text
here.</TD> <fTR> <,TABLE>
</TD> </TR> < /TABLE >

This code creates a table with
two rows and two columns. The
top row spans both columns and
contains the top-piece graphic.
The first column in the second
row contains the side-piece
graphic, while the second
column in that row contains our
HTML text.

Notice also that the
BORDER, CELLPADDING and
CELLSPACING have all been
set to 0 so that the graphics will
“bump” up against each olhur.
but the HTML text is inside a
nested table so that the
CELLSPACING can be set This
prevents the text from also
bumping against the graphics.
Finally, the first TD in the
second row has had the
VAUGN set to the top so that
that graphic will float to the top,
otherwise it would float
vertically in the middle of that
data cell and there would be a
gap. Check out what this looks
like when viewed online
iwww.webbettemironmen ts.com
/examples/5 6.html' .

On another note...

Readers have been asking me
where they can find an archive
of this column. Although The
Independent maintains an
archive, this is a general archive
of the Network section, and
there is no index. This week 1
am launching my own archive
on my website (www.webbed
envfromnents.com). Each week
I shall add the column that was
presented in Network the
previous week. I invite you to
visit the site and to let me know
what you think.

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financial ■ Comparing - Consultants

Consultancy OppoRTUNmES

The Eclipse Computing Group specialises in the supply, implementation and support ol corporate accounting
and financial management solutions globally.

Established in 1986. Eclipse Computing Is recognised as one of the premier suppliers in this highly
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positions globally.

Senior Sales Consultant (up to £40k Basic; OTE £70k)

As a sen/or member of the Sales Team you will:

■ have proven experience of selling mid-range financial systems

■ be a part/qualilied accountant

■ Actively secure the sale of Dynamics/SunSystems
Senior Account Managers (up to £40k + Profit Share)

/Is a Senior Account manager you wifi:

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■ have extensive knowledge of financial applications

■ add value to our existing client base by maximising the benefits of their existing system
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As a member of our Consultancy Team you will:

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Database Administrator

Reference RCC 4/99
To £22,542 p.a.

Ybu wffl rteafly have at least 3 yeas experience of
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associated Oracle software tools. Your role wtf be to
support databases naming the CoundTs first Softwae
Revenues and QSP Financial Systems. Exposure to
Windows NT or Ingres waM bfl a distinct advantage

although we wifl enhance your sfcfis with
necessary training.

IT Consultants

Reference RCC 45/98
To £23,958 p.a

One permanent one fixed-term unci 31 st May, 2000.

We require IT Consultants who can create imagmafive
solutions (o problems, see these to fruition and provide
cleat; effective advice & guidance to our customers.

Ybu wfi have experience In more than one oi the
following:

• Systems Analysis and Design

• User CensuSancy

• Testing of appfeation systems

• Working with package software systems/supplera

• fYwnjremerx,''ffnp(ernentation of application
systems

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Analyst/Programmer

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To £21,924 p.a.

Fixed-term unffl 31st May, 2000. We are lookmg for
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You should also he able to work within a team and have
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Network Administrator

Reference RCC 6/99
To £21.924 p.a.

You reoufre at least one year In network &
communications support, with practical experience of
wids & local area networks. Technical skills In Novel
NT, TCP/If? & IPX environments are required, as are
good interpersonal skflte to meet the demands of our
expamfirrg networks user base- We w* enhance your
skfls with necessary training.

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Information Systems

Bristol

The Environment Agency is a dynamic
force focusing on the protection and
enhancement of the natural world. We are
required and guided by Government to help
achieve the objective of sustainable
development Our remit is very broad
and encompasses pollution prevention
and control, flood defence, waste
management, water resources
and conservation.

We know that our effectiveness depends
as much on the quality and control of our
internal systems and operations as the work
we do in the field and this is where you will
play a critical role. Wbrking in partnership
with Agency staff you will ensure that
significant information system risks are
identified and effectively managed. We are
also seeking to identify and promote best
practice in all the activities we review.

We are now seeking a high calibre,
talented IS audit professional to join our
multi-disciplined team in Bristol. This is a
highly responsible role in which you will
cany out a variety of challenging
assignments, and so really contribute to the
effective management of business risk. You'll
have ample opportunity to use your

Head Office operates a no smoking policy.
The Environment Agency is commoted to
achieving Equal Opportunities.

c.£30,000 + benefits

interpersonal skills and initiative to solve
problems, yet still have the independence of
mind to form your own conclusions.

Educated to degree level, you should
have extensive experience of information
systems and be familiar with leading edge
systems and project audit techniques.
Experience of Year 2000 compliance issues
would be an advantage. Equally important
wifi be your tenacity, perseverance and
flexibility, that will reflect your strong
communication and presentation skills.

You'll need a current driving licence as
this rote involves a significant amount of
travel around England and Wales. Starting
salary will be dependent upon qualifications
and experience.

If you have a genuine interest in
preserving our natural environment then
please call Miles Jordan on 01 1 7 914 2890
for an Informal discussion. Alternatively,
please send your CV and a covering letter to
Liz Rex, Environment Agency, Government
Buildings, Burghiil Road, Westbury-on-Trym,
Bristol BSIO 6W. dosing date for receipt of
applications is 26 February 1999 .

Environment
jJK Agency

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A BUG’S LIFE (U)

Director John Lassefer

® tar T“ l 9 : Dav *d Potey, Kevin Spacey

See The Independent Recom^Ss, right.

CourtHoad

Oton Camden Unm, Odeon Kensington
tew-ester Square, Odeon MorbleArcto
Mem Smm cottase, UCI Whiter v&b*
Chelsea. And local cinemas

Director: Gillies Mackinnon
Starring: Kate Winslet. Said Taghmaoui
Through Uie teeming orange/red/turquoi
backdrop erf 1 9V0s Morocco treads frot* Winsle
hippie single-mum, her two daughte
®ala Riza, Came Muflau) unw illin gly jjj ^

thieving natives and Said Taghmaoui’s child- of-
tbe-soil love-interest weave hither and thither
across the narrative. Regeneration director

Freud’s novel to the screen; stirring to lots of
ethnic chic and a canny period soundtrack.
Winslet does well with a change-of-pace role as
the tale’s permanently strung-out, unsated
matriarch, and the child stars are starfftogty good.
West End: Clapham Picture House, Cureon
Soho, Cureon Minema, Odeon Swiss Cottage,
Renoir, Ritzy Cinema, Screen on Baker
Street, UCI Whiteleys, Virgin Fulham Road.
Local Kilbum Tricycle Cinema, UC J Surrey
Quays. Repertory: Phoenix Cinema

HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK (15)
Director Kevin Sullivan
Starring: Angela Bassett. Whoopi Goldberg
Stella got her groove back like this. She took
off to Jamaica with her feisty buddie (Whoopi
Goldberg', sashayed around the hearh in a rTmgmg
bikini, and got herself a little love action in the
form of a man (Faye Diggs) young *»wmgh to
be her son. So it goes: Shirtey Valentine with an

Afro-American spin, "ferry MacMillan's bestseQer
has been conjured into a kind of ongoing travel-
ag en t commercial - a coldly marketed “chick-
ffick”eEjcgringaran at cinemas before cropping up
as your in-flight entertainment. Title star Angela
Bassett works hard to make an Impression among

fho dirio-clvnB nTfrairisf-hrOChure VHTVmfe

West End Rihsy Cinema, Virgin Trocadero,
Warner Village Vfest End. Local Acton Park
RoydWbrnerVOlage,^ gcntamWttrnerVjaag^
Edmonton Lee VaSey UCI 22 , ffettham CineiDorld
the Movies, Barrow Wxm er Village, Holloway
Odeon, Peckham, Premier ; Staples Comer
Virgin, Streatham Odeon, New Stratford
Picture House, UCI Surrey Quays

LIVING OUT LOUD (15)

Director Richard LaGravenese
Starring: Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito
See The Independent Recommends, right
West End: Virgin Trocadero , Warner Village
West End. Local Edmonton Lee VtxU ey UCl 12 ,
Peckham Premier, Streatham ABC

PECKER (18)

Director John Wafers

Starring: Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci.

Uli Taylor

Trash auteur Waters swerves into sunnier
streets with Pecker, his Huffily satirical tale of an
amateurBaltimcgephotDg^to(BdwaidBhriong)
adopted as a fly-on-the-wall artiste by the NewMxk
elite. More Bairsprtty than Pink Flamingos,
Pecker goes big on hlne-collar kitsch without ever
making any real, stringent point, and sq uander s
Christina Rica (as Furlong’s hard-nosed giri-
fnencD into the bargain. The result is entirely genial,
butyou miss the old risk, edge ami bad-taste artistry
Age, it seems, has mellowed John Waters.

West End Clapham Picture House, Metro, Odeon
Camden lb von, ttrgm Hagmarket

Xan Brooks

General Release

BABE: PIG IN THE CITY (TJ)

The follow-up to Babe tosses the hapless
“sheep-pig" into the midst of the city where be
becomes the unlikely saviour of a bunch of
assorted waife- West End: Plaza. LocaL Acton Park
v Royal Warner Village, Bexleyheath Cineworld,
iq \proydon Winner Village, Dagenham Warner
Village, Edmonton Lee VaR ey UCI 12, Warner
Village North Finchley, Harrow Warner Village,
HoQxnoay Odeon, Peckham Premier . : Richmond
Odeon Studio. Sutton UCI 6, UCI Surrey Quays,
Wimbledon Odeon

THE OPPOSITE OF SEX (18)

See The Independent Recommends, above.
West End Ritzy Cinema, UCI Whiteleys, Virgin
Fulham Road, Warner Village West End.
Local- PeUham Cineworld the Movies, Warner
Village Finchley Road, Richmond Odeon Studio,
UCI Surrey Quays

x (PI) (15)

See The Independent Recommends, above.
West End: ABC Pardon Street, Cureon Soho.
Local Richmond Odeon Studio

BULWORTH (18)

Disillusioned at the end of an election campaign,
senator Jay Bulworth (Warren Beatty) turnsl
suiddal loose cannon; ha. ing out in the ’hood
and delivering his speecu«~ in abrasive rap
stylings. West End Clapham Picture House,
CuraonSoho, Odeon Kensington, Ritzy Cinema,
UOWhddeys,VirginCh^sea.Virgm
Warner Village West End. Local CatfordABC,
Croydon Clocktower, Ctoydon Safari, Ettmonton
Lee Valley UCI 12, Warner Village Finchley
Road, Peckham Premier, Wimbledon Odeon
Repertory: Watermans Arts Centre

ELIZABETH (15)

Shekhar Kapur’s story of a woman struggling
to gain purchase in a male world largely neglects
■ the opportunities fbrfiin in a story of independence
H triumphing over cruelty.

™ West End ABC Panton Street, Clapham Picture
House, Cvrzon Minema, Odeon Mezzanine

ENEMY OF THE STATE <15>

Will South's fall-guy DA teams up with Gene Hack-
man’s pensioned-off Pentagon warhorse, probes
a political cover-up and gets embroiled in all
manner of Big Brother-type trouble. Vfest End
Odeon C amden Tbum, Odeon Kensington, Odeon
MaMeAxtkVirgmTyoccKieraAndlo^

fear AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (18)
Terry Gilliam's adaptation tilts at Ralph
Steadman cartooneiy for its tale of a drug-fueDed
jou rnalis tic assignment. The film soon descends
into a carnival of narcotic lunacy, but the one
stand-out is Johnny Depp - who brings Hunter
S Thompson to bald-headed, pigeon-toed life.
West End.- Gate Netting Hid Repertory: Prince
Charles, The Lux Cinema

HILARY AND JACKIE (15)

jam-throttle playing from Rachel Griffiths and
iJfltaly Watson sustains, Anand ' njcke T^^ op ‘P?f
lire Du Pre sisters. Hilary (shy. mamedflauteb
and Jacqueline (worid-famous cellist). West End
Barbican Screen, Chelsea Cinema, Oapham
Picture House. Cureon Mayfair, Curzan Sam,
Cate Nailing HiU. Odeon
Odeon Swiss Cottage. Screen "

Greenwich Cinema. Richmond Odeon Studio

soarrow LV (Jane Horrocks) perfects strident

”b— SMWF

Bracing black comedy, Horrocks vocal
pyrotechnics, plus a marv^ously
turn from Michael Caine £«rt

final curtain- West End ABC

srsss

And local cinernas

IF ZORRO IPG)
washbuckler gallops
enturv California in the company
25* authentically
.> odeon Mezzanine, Odeon

RoodWmier

And local cinemas

PRACTICAL MAGIC (12)

Essentially a sibling soap-opera with a dash of
mnmbo-Jumbo, Practical Magic sees Sandra
Bullock and Nicole Kidman cast as two
mismatched sisters raised from aline of witches
and hexing any unlucky man who swings into their
orbit With Dianne West and Aidan Quinn.
West End: Odeon Kensington, Odeon Marble
Arch, Virgin Fulham Road, Virgin Trocadero,
Warner Village West End And local cinemas

THE PRINCE OF EGYPT (U)

In planning Ids cartoon fife of Moses, DreamVtorics
honcho Jeffrey Kataenberg envisaged it “painted
by Claude Monet and photographed by David
Leah”. The end result ends up looking more Hke
The Ten Commandments l?y way of Joseph and
his Technicolor Dreamcoat West End Empire
Leicester Square, Odeon Swiss Cottage, UCI
Whitdey$,lRrgmTro(xuSe ^ cal cinemas

RUSH HOUR (15)

Rush Hour marries Jackie Chan with an LA
backdrop, a jobbing Hollywood director and a
wise-cracking black comic in Chris Dicker’s
huckstering LAPD man. It's a hit-and-miss-affair.
West find- Odeon MarNe Arch. Virgin Trocadero,
Warner Village West End Local: Acton Park
Royal Warner Village, CroydcmWarnerVillage,
Dagenham Warner Village, Edmonton Lee
Valley UCi 12, Harrow Warner Village,
Staples Corner Virgin, Streatham
Odeon , UCI Surrey Quays . Wimbledon Odeon.
Repertory: National Film Theatre

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (15)

See The Independent Recommends, above.
West find- ABC Tottenham Court Road,
Barbican Screen. Clapham Picture House,
Empire Leicester Square, NottmgHiU Coronet,

Odeon Camden Tbwn, Odeon KensingUm, Odeon

Marble Arch, Odeon Swiss Cottage, Ritzy
Cinema. Screen on Baker Street, Screen on
the Green, UCI Whiteleys, Virgin Fulham Road,
Virgin Trocadero. And local cinemas

STEPMOM (12)

This sugar-glazed, oven-ready affair casts an
out-of-sorts Susan Sarandon as a middle-aged
matriarch squabbling over her offspring with the
new model mom (Julia Roberts) that hubby Ed
Harris has hooked up with. The first mom gets
poorly and laughter turns to tears (or at least
weary resignation). West End Odeon Camden
Jbiprh Odeon Kensington, Odeon Marble Arch,
Odeon Swiss Cottage, Odeon West End, UCI
Whiteleys, Virgin Chelsea. And local cinemas

TWO GIRLS AND A GUY (18)

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ned around the

rth by Anthony

rt find- Empire
“ .

at the psychological make-up of its three
cental characters. Heather Graham and Natasha
Gregson Warner are the dimed girlfriends of
Robert Downey Jr’s love-rat prima donna, and
Two Girls and a Guy gives them plenty of
room to move and breathe, turning the resulting
yarn into a pungent acting showcase. West End
Virgin Fulham Road, Virgin H aymarket
Local: Warner mage Finddey Road

VERY BAD THINGS (18)
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Vegas whore, intentionally murder the security
guard who rumbles the crime, and then start

coming apart at the seams on their arrival home.

peter Berg’s debut serves up swaggering
gross-out comedy in a Loaded-magazine style.
With Cameron Diaz and Christian Slater.
West find- Odeon Camden Town, Plaza, UCI
Whiteleys, Virgin Chelsea, Virgin Trocadero,
Warner VSlage Wfest find And local- cinemas

The Independent recommends

THE FIVE BEST FILMS THE FIVE BEST PLAYS THE FIVE BEST SHOWS

5hakespeare in Love (15)

This enjoyable romp (rigfa)
suggests how romance fired
Shakespeare with the creative
inspiration for Romeo and
Juliet. Joseph Fiennes and
Gwyneth Paltrow bead a
multi-star cast

Living Out Loud (15)

Holly Hunter plays a Manhattan woman who, kft
by ter husband, befriends the elevator operator in
her building, Writer Richard LaGravenese handles
everything with affectionate restraint.

A Bug's Life (U)

Less sophisticated and more child-friendly than
At ic, this animated feature spins another enjoy-
able yam about an ant oniony and its battle to sur-
vive. Kevin Spacey provides the voice of the chief
grasshopper.

The Opposite oF Sex (1 8)

Christina Ricci plays 16-ycar-oId bitch-on-wheels
Dedec, who causes all kinds of havoc when she
moves in with her half-brother (Marlin Donovan).

7C (15)

Darren Aronofsky’s debut, filmed in sooty black-
and-white, tells the story of a genius mathematician.
This stylish indie movie fearlessly combines Wall
Street, Jewish mysticism and nightmarish headaches.

The Street of Crocodiles

(Queen's Theatre)

Triumphant revival of Theatre de Comptfcile's
surreal and searing plunge into the imagination
of Polish-Jrwish writer Bruno Schulz. 7b 20 Feb

Oklahoma! (Lyceum Theatre)

Widely regarded as the best ever, Trevor Nunn's
glorious production of the Rogers and Haxmneretcin
classic fully deserves its West End transfer. To 26Jun

The Forest

(Lyttelton, National Theatre)

Frances de la lour is deliciously amusing as the
cra dle - ma tching widow in Ostrovsky's comedy
about tyrants and zhespians. In np

The Winter’s Thle

(RSC, Stratford)

An amazingly rich and
complex performance from
Antony Slier in Gregory
Doran's Roman ov-stvle
production (r^/u).

In rep to 4 Mar

Martin Guerre

(West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds)

It's third time lucky for this much-rewritten
musical. In ConaU Morrison's starkly involving
production, it finally emerges as a tighter,
magnificent show. To 13 Feb

Portraits by Ingres (National Gallery)
Some of the smartest, most intense portraiture ever.
Women: exquisite melanges of flesh and fabric,
dreams of scs and money. Images of triumphant
bourgeois luxury. To ZS.-tpr

Patrick Caulfield

(Hayward Gallery)

The modern object -wo rid

made luminous (rigfo). This
survey of nearly 50 years*
work offers his fell range -

notably, those bold laconie
outlines; blocked in with
translucent colour. 7 b II Apr

Andreas Gursky (Serpentine Gallery)

Photographs 1Q94-QS: wi do-vision, high-finish,
micro-detailed vistas of our work! - sttvfc-ou'hange
floor, cityscape, airport, alpine valley - images tilled
with more than the eye can see. To " Mar

Disasters of War

(Wolverhampton Art Gallery)

“I saw this'’ - three ages of Europetin war through
the etchings of Jacques Callnt. Goya and Otto Dlv
V isions [tom the blackest of times. To It) Afar

Peter Doig & Udomsak Krisanamis

(Fruirmarket Gallery, Edinburgh)

Doig's sizzling landscapes alternate with
Krisanamis’ collages of cultural detritus To 2~ Mur

Anthony Quinn

Paul Taylor

Tom Libiukk.

Cinema

West End

ABC PANTON STREET

(0870-9020404) ■& Piccadilly

Circus Elizabeth 2.10pm, 5.10pm,
8.10pm Lock, Stock & Two
Smoking Barrels 1.10pm.

3.35pm. 6.05pm, 8.30pm My
Name is Joe 1.20pm. 3.45pm.
6.20pm, B.40pm x (PQ 1.25pm,
3.30pm 6.10pm, 8.35pm

ABC PICCADILLY

(0171-287 4322 (from 1pm) o
Piccadilly Circus Hamam: The
Turkish Bath 1.25pm, 3.50pm.
6.10pm, 845pm There’s

Something About Mary 1.05pm,
3.30pm. 6.00pm, 845pm

ABC SHAFTESBURY AVENUE

(0870-902 0402) e Leicester
Square Class Trip 1 .05pm.
3.30pm, 6.10pm, 8.30pm Texas
Chainsaw Massacre 1.35pm.

3.55pm, 6.35pm. 8.55pm

ABC SWISS CENTRE
(0870-902 0403) e Leicester
Squarefficcadilly Circus Buffalo 66
1.15pm, 3.50pm. 6.15pm, 8.40pm
Un Homme et une Femme
2.15pm, 445pm. 6.45pm. 835pm
On Cbnnait la Chanson 1.10pm.
3.40pm, 6.10pm. 8.40pm La Vie
Reuee des Anges 1 45pm. 3.45pm,
645pm, 8.45pm

ABC TOTTENHAM COURT
ROAD

(0870-902 0414) O Tottenham
Court Road A Bug's Life 1 ,20pm.
4.05pm. 6.45pm. 9.00pm Little
Voice 1.30pm, 3.55pm. 7.05pm.
9.40pm Shakespeare in Love
1.10pm, 3.45pm. 6.30pm,

945pm

BARBICAN SCREEN

(0171-638 8891) -B Barbican
Ifflary and Jackie 6pm. 8.40pm
Shakespeare In Love 3pm, 6pm.
8.40pm

CHELSEA CINEMA

(01 71-351 3742) ■€► Sloane Square
IDIary and Jackie 1.10pm.
3.40pm. 6.10pm, 8.40pm

CLAPHAM PICTURE HOUSE
(0171-498 3323 Bulworth 9pm
Hideous Kinky 2.30pm, 4.45pm,
7pm. 9.10pm Klary and Jackie
130pm. 4pm. 6.30pm Pecker
1 .30pm. 3.30pm. 5.30pm.

7.30pm, 9 .3 0pm Shakespeare in
Love 1.45pm. 4.15pm, 6.45pm,
9.20pm

CURZON MAYFAIR

(0171-369 1720) e Green Parti
Hilary and Jackie 1pm, 3.30pm,
6pm. 8.40pm

CURZON MINEMA

(0171-369 1723) O- Hyde Park
Comer/Knighesb ridge Hideous
Kinky 3pm. 5pm, 7pm. 9pm

CURZON SOHO

(0171-734 2255 (12noon-6pm) «■
Leicester Square/Totxenham Court
Road Bulworth 7.15pm. 9.30pm
Hideous Kinky 1.45pm, 4pm,
6.45pm. 9pm HBary and Jackie
1pm, 3.45pm, 6.30pm, 9.15pHn n
(PI) 1.15pm

EMPIRE LEICESTER SQUARE

(0990-888990) ■©■ Leicester

Square Meet Joe Black 12 noon,
3.40pm. 7.20pm The Prince of
Egypt 3.15pm, 6pm, 8.15pm
Shakespeare In Lowe 12.15pm.
3pm, 5.50pm. 8.45pm

GATE HOTTING HILL

(0171-727 4043) ^ Notting HW
Gate Hilary and Jackie 4.20pm.
8.50pm UEde Voice 2.20pm.
650pm

METRO

(0171-734 1506) * Piccadilly
Circus Dobermann 2pm. 4.15pm.
6J0pm. 8.45pm Pecker 3pm.
5pm. 7pm. 9pm

NOTTING HILL CORONET

(0171-727 6705) O Hotting Hill
Gate Shakespeare in Love
2.45pm. 5.45pm, 8.30pm

ODEON CAMDEN TOWN

(08705-050007) O Camden Town
A Bus's Life 12 noon. 2.20pm,
4,35pm, 6.45pm, 9.05pm Little
Voice 11.50am. 2pm. 4.iSpm.
6.35pm, 8.4Spm Pecker 12.50pm.
2A'Spm, 4.45pm, 6.55pm, 9.10pm
Shakespeare in Love 12.10pm,
2.50pm. 5.45pm, 8.35pn

Stxpmom 1220pm. 6.30pm Vtery
Bad TWn^ 3.45pm, 9pm

ODEON KENSINGTON

(08705-050007) e High Street
Kensington A Bog’s Ufe i i.45am,
2.15pm. 4.45pm. 7,15 pm,

9.4Spm Bulworth 1.15pm, 4pm,
6.45pm, 930pm Hilary and

Jadde 3.40pm. 6.30pm Little
Voice 1.50pm. 4JJ5pm. 7 pm.
935pm Practical Magic 1 pm.
930pm Shakespeare In Love
12.10pm. 3.10pm, 6.10pm,

9.10pm Stepmom 1235pm.
3 J5pm, 635pm 935pm

ODEON LEICESTER SQUARE

(08705-050007) Leicester

Square A Bug's Ufe T.45pm.
4.10pm. 6.30pm, 8.50pm

ODEON MARBLE ARCH

(08705-050007) -6- Marble Arch A
Bug’s life 2.05pm. 4.25pm.
6.45pm. 9.05pm Enemy OF the
State 12.20pm. 3.T0pm. 6.05pm,
9pm Practical Magic 1.15pm.
6.25pm Shakespeare In Love
12.35pm. 335pm. 6.15pm.

9.15pm The Siege 3.35pm,
8.55pm Stepmom 12.30pm,
3.20pm. 6.10pm. 8.55pm

ODEON MEZZANINE

(08705-050007) Q Leicester Square
ESz^eth 12.35pm, 3.05pm.

535pm 830pm Lock, Stock &
111110 Smoking Barrels 1.25pm.
335pm. 6J(Sywn. 8.45pm The
Mask of Zorro 235pm 5.25pm
8.15pm The Siege 1.15pm
3.40pm. 6.05pm 8,30pm There’s
Something About Mary 12.45pm
3.15pm. 5.45pm. 8.20pm

ODEON SWISS COTTAGE

(08705-050007) » Swiss Cottage
A Bug's Life 12.15pm. 2.25pm.
4.35pm. 6.45pm, 9pm Hideous
Kinky l.15pm. 3.55pm. 6.15pm,
8.45pm Klary and Jackie
12.20pm, 3pm 5.35pm, 8.15pm
Little Voice 1.45pm. 4pm,
6.20pm 6.50pm Shakespeare in
Love 12.20pm. 3.05pm. 5.50pm,
8.35pm Stepmom 1 2.10pm„
2.45pm 535pm 8.10pm

ODEON WEST END

(08705-050007) O Leicester
Square Little Voice 1.55pm,
4.1 0pm 630pm, 8.55pm

Stepmom 12.10pm. 2,55pm.

5.40pm. 6.30pm

PEPSI MAX CINEMA

(0171-494 4153) -O Piccadilly
Circus Everest 9.05pm L5 (IMAX)
2.40pm. 4.45pm. 7pm T-Resc
Back to the Cretaceous (3-D)
1.35pm. 3.40pm, 5.45pm. 8pm
10.05pm

PLAZA

(0990-886990) O Piccadilly Circus
Babe: Pig in the City 12.40pm
Saving Private Ryan 3pm.
7.30pm Star Trek: Insurrection
1.20pm. 3.40pm, 6pm, 8.30pm
The Human Show 1pm 3.15pm,
6.15pm. 8.45pm Vtery Bad Things
1 .30pm, 3.50pm, 6.20pm, 9pm

RENOIR

(0171-837 8402) O Russell

Square The Apple (SR>) lpm.
2.55pm. 4.50pm, 6.45pm.

8.45pm Hideous Kinky 2.20pm.
4.30pm. 6.40pm. 8.55pm

RITZY CINEMA

(0171-733 2229) BR/Q Brbcton
The Flower of My Secret 2.10pm
Hideous Kinky 2.45pm. 4.50pm.
7.05pm 9.15pm How Stella Got
Her Groove Back 4. 1 0pm
6.40pm. 9.10pm Ucde Voice

3pm, 5.15pm. 7.25pm. 9.30pm
The Opposite of Set 2.20pm
4.40pm, 7pm. 9.20pm (+ Short:
Horseshoe} Shakespeare In Love
2pm, 4 ,25pm, 6.50pm. 9.25pm

SCREEN ON BAKER STREET

(0171 -93S 2772) ■©■ Baker Street
Hideous Kinky 2.35pm. 4.40pm,
6.55pm. 9.10pm Shakespeare in
Love 3.10pm. 6.25pm, 9pm

SCREEN ON THE GREEN

(0171-226 3520) O- Highbury &
Islington Shakespeare In Love
3.35pm. 6.20pm. 9pm

SCREEN ON THE HILL

(0171-435 3366) ^ Belslze Park
Hilary and Jackie 3.10pm.
6.40pm, 9.10pm

ua WHITELEYS

(0870 60 34567) •©■ Queensway A
Bug's Life 1.30pm, 2.10pm, 4pm,
4.40pm, 6.30pm. 7.10pm.

8 . 50 pm Bulworth 4.10pm. 9pm
Hideous Kinky 1.20pm, 3.40pm,
fi^Opm. 8.40pm Little 1A»oe
2pm. 6.40pm. 9.30pm The

Opposite of Sex 1 ,40pm. 4 .20pm.
7pm. 9.20pm The Parent Ttap
2J25pm Shakespeare In Love
12.35pm. 3.20pm. 6.1 0pm,

9.10pm Stepmom 2.50pm.

5.50pm, 6.30pm Very Bad Things
5.05pm. 7.20pm, 9.40pm

VIRGIN CHELSEA

(0870-907 0710) 9 Sloane Square
A Bug’s Ufe 12.30pm. 2.45pm,
5pm, 7.15pm, 9.30pm Bulworth
1pm,. 3.20pm. 6pm. 9.15pm
Stepmom 12.45pm, 3.30pm.

6.15pm, 9pm Very Bad Things
1 ,30pm, 4pm. 6.30pm. 8.45pm

VIRGIN FULHAM ROAD

(0870-907 0711) ■©■ Sooth

Kensington ffideous Kinky
12.10pm, 230pm, 4.40pm,

630 pm. 9.10pm Utile Voice
12.40pm. 3pm, 5.10pm, 7.20pm,
9.40fffn The Opposite of Sat
12.30pm. 250pm. 5pm. 7.10pm.
930pm Practical Ma^c 1.40pm,
4pm. 630pm, 930pm Shakespeare
in Loire 1230pm. 3.30pm. 6pm,
8.50pm Two Girts and A Guy
1.20pm. 3J20pm, 5.30pm,

7.30pm, 9.40pm

VIRGIN HAYMARKET

(0870-907 0712) G- Piccadilly
Circus Bulworth 1pm. 3.30pm.
6.10pm, 8.35pm Pecker 1.15pm.
3.45pm. 6.30pm. 8.45pm Two
Girls and a Guy 1.40pm. 4pm.
620pm. 8.55pm

VIRGIN TROCADERO

(0870-907 0716) O Piccadilly
Circus Enemy of the State
1 2 neon. 2.50pm. 5.40pm. 8.30pm
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
12.30pm. 3.10pm, 6pm, 8.50pm
Living Out Loud 1pm. 3.20pm,
6pm. 8.20pm Practical Magic
1 2noon, 2. 1 5pm. 4.30pm.
6.50pm, 9.15pm Shakespeare in
Love 12noon, 2.40pm, 5.30pm.
8.20pm Still Crazy 12.20pm,
2.30pm, 430pm. 7pm, 9.20pm
Very Bad Things 12noon,
2.10pm. 430pm. 6.40pm.

9.10pm

WARNER VILLAGE WEST END

(0171-437 4343) Leicester
Square Bulworth 1pm, 3.30pm,
630pm, 9pm How Stella Got Her
Groove Back 12.50pm. 3.40pm,
6.30pm, 9.10pm Living Out Loud
12.40pm, 330pm, 6pm, 8.40pm
The Mask of Zorro 12.30pm.
3.20pm, 6.30pm The Opposite of
Sex 1.20pm. 3.50pm, 6.10pm.
8.50pm A Perfect Murder
1.30pm. 4.10pm, 6.50pm,

935pm Practical Magic 12.20pm.
3.10pm. 5.50pm, 8.40pm (+
Short: Eight) Rush Hour 1.10pm,
3.45pm, 930pm Very Bad Things
1130am, 2.10pm, 4.30pm. 7pm.
9.30pm What Dreams May Come
8.40pm.

Cinema

London locals

ACTON

PARK ROYAL WARNER VILLAGE
(0181-896 0066) G- Park Royal A
Bug’s Ufe 1 2. 1 0pm, 2pm, 2.30pm,
4.20pm, 4.50pm. 6.30pm. 7.10f*n,
8.40pm. 9.35pm Enemy of Che
State 1.30pm. 1.10pm, 7pm.
9.50pm How Stella Got Her
Groove Back 12noon. 3pm. 6pm.
8.55pm Little Vbice 4.30pm,
9.10pm The Parent Trap 2.20pm,
5.05pm Practical Magic 2.10pm,
6.50pm Shakespeare In Love 1 pm.
3.40pm, 6.20pm. 9.20pm The
51ege 7.40pm. 10.1 0pm Stepmom
12.30pm. 3.10pm. 5.50pm. 8.30pm
Very Bad Things 2.30pm, 4.50pm,
7.30pm, 10pm

BARNET

ODEON (08705 050007) O High
Barnet A Bug's Ufe 230pm.
4.50pm. 7pm. 9.05pm Utde Voice
1.15pm. 3.45pm. 6.45pm, 8.45pm
Practical Magic 1pm, 6.15pm
Shakespeare in Love 12.45pm.
335pm. 6. 10pm. 8.40pm Stepmom
1pm, 3.30pm. 6pm. 6.30pm Very
Bad Things 3.30pm, 9pm

BECKENHAM

ABC (0870 902041 2) BR: Becken-
ham Junction A Bug's Ufe 2 . 1 0pm.
4.20pm 6.30pm, 8.40pm Little
Voice 1.40pm, 4.10pm, 6.20pm,
8.50pm Shakespeare m Love 2pm.
5.40pm, 8.30pm

BEXLEYHEATH

CINEWORLD (01 81 -303 1 550) BR:
Bexleyheath A Bug’s Life 12noon,
1pm, 2pm, 3pm. 4pm, 5pm, 6pm.
7pm. 8pm. 9pm Enemy of the State
1 .30pm. 4.1 0pm. 7.1 0pm. 9.40pm
Jhoolc Bole Katuwa Kaate 4pm Lit-
tle Voice 12.10pm, 2.30pm. 5pm.
7.1 5pm. 9.30pm The Mask of Zor-
ro 1pm, 6.30pm Meet Joe Black
1 2 .45pm. 4.1 5pm. 7.45pm Practi-
cal Magic 12.35pm, 2.50pm.
5.10pm. 7.30pm, 9.50pm Shake-
speare in Love lpm, 3.45pm,
6.30pm. 9.20pm The Siege 10pm
Stepmom 1.20pm, 4pm, 6.45pm.
9.35pm Very Bad Things 4pm.
9.50pm

BROMLEY

ODEON (08705 050007) SR:
Bromley North/Bromley South A
Bug's Life 12noon, 2.15pm,
4.30pm, 6.45pm, 9pm Utde Voice
2.25pm, 4.40pm, 6.50pm. 9.05pm
Shakespeare in Love 1 2.25pm,
3.05pm. 5.50pm. 8.35pm Stepmom
12.15pm, 3pm, 5.45pm, 835pm

CATFORD

ABC (0181 -698 3306) BR: Catford
A Bug’s Life 1.15pm, 3,45pm,
6.1 5pm, 8.45pm Bulworth 2.1 5pm.
5.45pm, 8.30pm

CROYDON

CLOCKTOWER (0181-253 1030)
BR: Wes [/Ease Croydon Bulworth
4.15pm, 6.30pm. 8.45pm

FAIRFIELD HALLS (0181-688
9291 ) BR: East Croydon Dancing At
Lughnasa 7.45pm

SAFARI (0181-688 3422) BR: West
Croydon. A Bug’s Life 5.40pm. 8pm
Bulworth 5.30pm, 8.30pm Hum
Aapke DU Mein Rehte Hain
5.15pm, 8.15pm

WARNER VILLAGE (0181-680
8090) BR: East Croydon A Bug’s
Life 2.30pm, 3.40pm. 4.50pm.
6.10pm, 7.10pm, 8.30pm. 9.30pm
Enemy of the State 3.50pm.
6.40pm. 9.40pm Little Voice
1 .50pm. 4.30pm, 6.50pm, 9.1 5pm
Practical Magic 2.50pm. 5.50pm,
8.40pm Shakespeare In Love
3.10pm, 6pm, 8.50pm Stepmom
3.30pm. 6.20pm, 9.05pm Very
Bad Things 2.40pm. 5pm. 7.20pm.
9.50pm

DAGENHAM

WARNER VILLAGE (0181-592
2020) o Dagenham Heath way A
Bug’s Life 1.45pm. 3pm. 4pm.
5.10pm, 6.30pm. 7.30pm, 8.40pm.
9.40pm Enemy of the State
3.50pm. 6.15pm, 9.10pm How
Stella Got Her Groove Back
1 .30pm, 4.1 0pm. 6.45pm. 9.30pm
Little Voice 2pm. 4.30pm, 7.15pm.
9.20pm Practical Magic 1.50pm,
4.1 5pm, 6.40pm. 9pm Shakespeare
in Love 330pm. 6.10pm, 8.50pm
Seqxnom 3pm. 5.40pm. 8,30pm
Very Bad Things 2.30pm, 5pm.
7.30pm. 9.50pm

EAUNG

VIRGIN UXBRIDGE ROAD (0870-
90707 1 9) BR/O Ealing Broadway A
Bug's Ufe 1.50pm, 4pm. 6.30pm,
8.45pm Shakespeare in Love
2.40pm. 5.40pm. 8.40pm Stepmom
2.30pm. 5.30pm, 8.30pm

BMSWARE

BELLE-VUE (0181-381 2556) O
Edgware Aa Ab Laut Chalen phone
for times Bade Dllwaia phone for
times A Bug’s Ufe 1.15pm,
3.30pm. 5.45pm. 7.35pm Kuch
Kuch Hota Hat phone For times Very
Bad Things 5.20pm. 830pm Za-
khm phone for rimes

EDMONTON

LEE VALLEY UCl 12 (0990-
888990) O Tottenham Hale AA AB
Laut Chalain 8.1 5pm A Bug's Ufe
2.10pm. 3.40pm, 4.30pm. 6pm.
6.50pm, 830pm. 9pm Bulworth
6.30pm Enemy of the State
4.10pm. 7pm, 9.50pm How Stel-
la Got Her Groove Back 1.55pm.
6.40pm, 9.30pm Uttle Voice
2.45pm, 5pm, 7.15pm. 9.20pm
Living Out Loud 4.45pm. 7.30pm,

1 0pm Meet Joe Black 4.20pm. 8pm
The Parent TVap 2.30pm Practical
Magic 3.05pm, 5.45pm, 8.50pm
Shakespeare in Love 3.20pm.
630pm. 9.1 0pm The Siege 5.30pm
Star Trek: Insurrection 4pm Step-
mom 4.1 5pm, 7pm, 9.40pm very
Bad Things 10pm

ELEPHANT A CASTLE
CORONET (0171-703 4968) O
Elephant 6 Castle A Bug’s Ufe 4pm,
6.30pm. 8.40pm Enemy of The
State 3pm, 5.45pm, 8.20pm Prac-
tical Magic 3.45pm. 6pm, 8.30pm

FE1THAM

CINEWORLD THE MOVIES (01 81 -
867 0555) BR- Feltham AA AB Laut
Chalain 11.45am, 3.30pm. 7.15pm
A Bug’s Ufe 1 lam. 12noon. lpm,
2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, 6pm. 7pm.
9pm Enemy of the State 7 1 ,20am,
1.50pm. 4.30pm, 7.10pm. 9.45pm
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1.30pm. 4.20pm. 7pm. 9.45pm
Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! 1 1 .1 5am,
2.45pm. 6.20pm, 8.05pm, 9.45pm
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai 11.15am.
2.45pm, 6.15pm Little Voice
12.15pm, 2.30pm, 4.50pm.

7.05pm, 9.15pm Meet Joe Black
1 05pm. 4.30pm. 8pm The Oppo-
site of Sea 11.55am. 2.15pm.
4.25pm. 6.40pm. 9.05pm Practical
Magic 1 1 .40am. 2.1 0pm, 4.35pm,
6.55pm. 9.25pm Shakespeare hi
Love 1pm, 3.45pm. 6.45pm.
9.30pm The Siege 9.50pm Step-
mom 11.15am, 1.45pm, 4.30pm.
7,1 0pm, 9.40pm Very Bad Things
7,50pm, 10pm Zaklun 11.45am.
2.30pm. 5.15pm

NORTH FINCHLEY
WARNER VILLAGE (0181-446
9344) 0 East RncMey/Finchley
Central A Bug's Ufe 2pm, 3pm.
4.30pm, 5.30pm. 7pm. 7.50pm,
9.30pm, 10pm Enemy of the State
2.30pm, 5,40pm, 8.50pm Uttle
Ifofce 2.20pm, 4.50pm. 7. 15pm,
9.40pm Practical Magk 1.30pm,
4.10pm, 6.50pm. 9.50pm Shake-
speare In Love 12.50pm. 3.30pm,
6.10pm. 9pm Stepmom 1.20pm.
4pm. 6.40pm, 9.20pm Very Bad
Things 1.10pm. 3.50pm, 6.20pm.
8.40pm

FINCHLEY ROAD
WARNER VILLAGE (0171-604
3l 1 0)0- Hnchley Road A Bug's Life
3.40pm. 6pm, 8.15pm, 10.30pm
Bulworth 5.05pm. 9.50pm Enemy
of The State 4. 1 0pm, 9.40pm Ur-
tle Voice 1 .50pm, 7pm The Oppo-
site er Sex 2.10pm. 4.40pm,
7.10pm, 9.30pm Practical Magk
2pm. 4.50pm. 7.20pm, 10pm
Shakespeare in Love 12.40pm,
3.20pm. 6 . 1 5 pm. 9.10pm Stepmo m
12.30pm, 3.10pm, 5.50pm, g.40pm
Two Girls And A Guy 12.50pm,
2.50pm, 7,30pm very Bad Things
1.30pm. 4pm, 6.30pm, 8,50pm

GOLDERS GREEN

ABC 10181-455 1724) O Gcrfdufs
Green Shakespeare in Love
2.45pm. 5.35pm. 8 20pm

GREENWICH

CINEMA (0181-293 01011 8R:
Greenwich A Bug's Ufe 4 30pm.
6.40pm, 8.50pm Hilary And Jackie
4.55pm UttkVoke 7.10pm. 9 10pm

HAMPSTEAD

ABC (0870-90204 1 3) O Bebaze Park
A Bug's Life 1 40pm. 4pm. 6.20pm.
8.40pm Utde Voice 2pm. 4.15pm.
6.30pm. 3.45pm Shakespeare in
Lnue 2.35pm. 5.1Spm, 8.15pm

HAMMERSMITH
VIRGIN (0870-9070718) O Ham-
mersmith A Bug’s Ufe 1.30pm.
6.20pm. 5.20pm. 8.30pm Utde
Voice 1.20pm. 3.40pm. 6pm. 820pm
The Prince of Egypt 1 ,30pm Shake-
speare In Love 12.50pm. 3.40pm.
6.20pm. 9.T0pm Stepniom 1 2.40pm
3.20pm, 6pm. 8.40pm

HARROW

SAFARI (0181 -426 0303) e Har-
row-on-the-Hill Hum Aapke Hain
Koun..! B.45pm Hu Th Tu 8.45pm

WARNER VILLAGE (01 81-427
9009) o Harrow on the Hill A
Bug's Ufe 11.10am. 1.15pm.
1.40pm. 3.35pm, 4.10pm, 6pm.
6.40pm. 8.30pm. 9.10pm Enemy of
the State 12.15pm. 3.05pm,
6.05pm. 8.50pm How Stella Got
Her Groove Back 1 2.20pm. 3pm.
5.50pm, 8.40pm Little Vblce
12.35pm, 2.45pm, 5.05pm,

7.25pm. 9.40pm Practical Magic
1.30pm. 4.10pm. 6.50pm, 9.20pm
Shakespeare in Love 1.10pm. 4pm.
6.50pm, 930pm Stepmom l2noon,
2.50pm, 5.40pm, 8.20pm Very Bod
Thongs 1 .30pm. 4pm. 6.30pm. 9pm

HOLLOWAY

ODEON (08705 050007) O Arch-
way A Bug’s Ufe 12.05pm.
1.05pm. 230pm. 3.25pm. 4.35pm.
5.45pm, 6.50pm, 8.05pm, 9.05pm
Enemy of the State 1. 35pm
4.05pm. 6.30pm, 8.50pm How
Stella Got Her Groove Back 12pm.
3.05pm, 5.50pm, 8.35pm Uttle
Voice l.35pm. 4pm, 6.25pm.
8.50pm Practical Magic 2.20pm.
6.50pm Shakespeare in Love
1230pm. 3.05pm. 5.50pm. a. 35pm
Stepmom 1 2.20pm. 3 05pm.
5.50pm, B.35pm Very Bad Things
4.30pm. 9pm

ILFORD

ODEON (08705 050007) O Gants
Hill A Bug’s Ufe 2pm. 4.20pm.
6.40pm, 8.50pm Uttle Voice
1 ,30pm. 3 .50pm. 6. 1 Opm. 8.40pm
Practical Magk 1.55pm. 4.15pm.
6.35pm Shakespeare in Love
2.50pm. 5.30pm. 8. 10pm Stepmom
2.50pm, 5.30pm. 8. 10pm Very
Bad Things 8.45pm

KILBURN

THE TRICYCLE (0171-328 10001
9 Kilbum Hideous Kinky 6 30pm.
8.45pm

KINGSTON

ABC OPTIONS (0870-90204091
BR: Kingston A Bug's Ufe 1 ,20pm,
3.40pm, 6.05pm, S.30pm Uttle
Voice 1.30pm, 3.50pm. 6.15pm.
8.40pm Shakespeare in Love
2.10pm. 5.25pm. 8.10pm

MUSWELL HILL

ODEON (08705 050007) ^ High-
gara A Bug’s Ufe 2.30pm, 4.50pm,
7pm, 9.05pm Shakespeare In Love
12.55pm. 3.30pm, 6pm. 8.30pm
Stepmom lpm, 3.35pm. 6.05pm.
8.35pm

PECKHAM

PREMIER (0181-235 3006) BR.
Peckham Rye A Bug’s Ufe 2.20pm.
4.40pm. 7pm. 9 10pm Enemy of
the State 6.30pm. 9.05pm How
Stella Got Her Groove Back
3.40pm. 6.20pm. 9pm uttle Voice
4.35pm Living Out Loud 4.50pm.
7.05pm. 9.20pm The Mask of Ter-
ra 4.30pm The Parent Trap 2,10pm
Practical Magic 2.15pm. 7.15pm
The Prince of Egypt 2.45pm
Shakespeare in Love 3.35pm.
6.1 5pm. 8.55pm The Siege 9.1 5pm

PURLEY

ABC (0870-9020407) BR: Purfey A
Bug's Life 6pm. 840pm little Voice
6.10pm, 8.30pm Shakespeare in
Love 2. 10pm, 5.10pm. 8.10pm

PUTNEY

ABC (0870 9020401 )■& Putney
Bridge Uttle Voice 1.15pm. 3.45pm.
6.15pm. 3.35pm Shakespeare in
Love 2.15pm. 5.15pm. 8.15pm

RICHMOND

ODEON (0B705 050007) BR/&
Richmond A Bug’s Ufe 12.10pm.
2.30pm, 4.50pm, 7.10pm. 9.30pm
Uttle voice 2pm, 4.20pm. 6.50pm.
9.20pm Shakespeare in Love
12.30pm, 3.20pm, 6.30pm. 9.10pm

ODEON STUDIO (08705 050007)
BR/O Richmond Hilary And Jack-
ie 1 2.30pm. 3.20pm. 6.10pm, 9pm
The Opposite of Sex 2.20pm,
7.10pm „ (Pf) 4.30pm, 9.40pm
Practical Magic 2pm, 7pm Step-
mom 2.10pm, 6pm, 8.50pm Very
Bad Things 4.40pm. 9.30pm

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16/LISTINGS

the MONDAY REVIEW

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ROMFORD

ABC (0670-9020419) BR: Romford
A Bug's Life 1 .40pm, 4pm. 620pm.
6,40pm Practical Magic 2.30pm.
5.55pm. 8.25pm Very Bad Things
2.25pm, 5.50pm, 8.30pm

ODEON LIBERTY 2 (08705

050007) BR: Romford A Bug's Life
12noon. 1.20pm. 220pm. 3.45pm.
4.45pm. 6pm. 7pm. 8.15pm. 9pm
Enemy of die State 12.45pm.
6. 1 0pm Little Voice 1 .30pm.
4.15pm, 6.40pm. 8.50pm Living
Out Loud 2pm. 4.15pm, 6.30pm.
8.50pm Practical Magic 1.15pm.
4pm. 620pm, 8.40pm Shakespeare
in Love 1220pm. 2.50pm. 5.30pm.
6.10pm Stepmom 12.10pm. 3pm.
5.45pm, 820pm Very Bad Things
3.45pm. 8.55pm

srocup

ABC (0541-555131) Bit Sdcup A
Bug's Life 6.1 5pm. 8.45pm Shake-
speare in Love 5.15pm. 8.15pm

STAPLES CORNER
VIRGIN (0870-907071 7) BR: Crick-
tewood A Bug's ure lpm. 2 -20pm.
3.30pm. 4.40pm. 6pm, 7pm,
8.30pm Enemy oT the State
9.10pm Hon Stella Okie Her
Groove Back 3pm, 6pm, 8.45pm
The Parent Trap 12.15pm Practi-
cal Magic 1.30pm. 4.15pm. 6.45pm
Shakespeare in Love 3.10pm.
5.50pm. 8.50pm Stepmom 1pm,
3.45pm. 6.30pm. 9.15pm Very
Bad Things 9.15pm

STREATHAM

ABC (0870-9020415) BR:
Streatham Hill Living Out Loud
2.10pm. 4.25pm. 6.40pm. 8.55pm
Meet Joe Black 7.15pm Shake-
speare in Love 2.25pm, 5.35pm.
8.25pm Star Trek: Insurrection
2.15pm. 4.50pm

ODEON (08705 050007) BR:
Streatham Hlll/e- Brixcon/Oapham
Common A Bug’s UFe 12.10pm.
2.30pm. 4.50pm, 7pm. 9pm Ene-
my of the State 12.1 0pm. 2.55pm.
5.40pm. 8.25pm How Stella Got
Her Groove Back 1220pm. 3pm,
5.40pm, 8.20pm Little Voice
1.20pm. 3.40prn, 6pm Stepmom
12.20pm. 3pm. 5.40pm, 8.20pm
Very Bad Things 8.20pm

STRATFORD

NEW STRATFORD PICTURE
HOUSE (0181-555 3366]
Stratford East A Bug’s Life 2.40pm,
4.50pm, 7pm. 9.10pm How Stel-
la Got Her Groove Back lpm.
3.30pm. 6.05pm. 8.40pm Shake-
speare in Love 1.10pm. 3.40pm,
6.15pm. 8.50pm Stepmom

1.05pm. 3.50pm. 8.30pm Very
Bad Things 6.30pm

SURREY CLUAYS
UCI (0990 888990) «■ Surrey
Quays Antz 1 .50pm Babe: Pig in
The Oty 2pm A Bug's Life 1.15pm.
2.10pm. 3.40pm, 4.30pm. 6pm.
7pm, 8.20pm Enemy of the State
9.20pm Hideous Kinky 1.45pm,
4.45pm, 7.15pm. 9.45pm How
Stella Got Her Groove Back 4pm.
6.40pm. 9.40pm Little Voice
4.50pm. 7pm. 9. 15pm The Oppo-
site of Sex 4.15pm, 6.50pm.
9.10pm The Parent Trap 2.20pm
The Prince of Egypt 1.30pm
5hakespeare In Love 1.30pm.
4.15pm, 7pm, 9.4Qpm Stepmom
1.15pm. 4pm, 6.45pm. 9.25pm
Very Bad Things 5pm. 7.30pm.
10pm

SUTTON

Ua 6 (0990-888990) «■ Morden A
Bug’s Life 4.45pm, 6pm, 'om,
8.30pm Enemy of the S
9.30pm Little Voice 2.45pm.
5.30pm. 7.30pm. 9.15pm Saving
Private Ryan 4.30pm Shakespeare
in Love 3pm. 5.45pm. 8.45pm
Star Trek: Insurrection 4.30pm
Stepmom 3.15pm. 6.15pm, 9pm
Very Bad Things 9.45pm

TURNPIKE LANE
CORONET (0181-888 2519) e
Turnpike Lane A Bug’s Life 4pm,
6.30pm. 8.40pm Little Voice
4.15pm, 6.25pm. 8.45pm Very
Bad Things 3.55pm. 6.15pm,
8.45pm

UXBRIDGE

ODEON (08705 050007) e
Uxbridge A Bug’s Life 1 .1 5pm. 4pm,
6.15pm, 9pm Stepmom 1.40pm,
5.50pm, 8.30pm

WALTHAMSTOW

ABC (0870-9020424) ©■ Waltham-
stow Central A Bug’s Ufe 1 .40pm,
4pm. 6.20pm, 8.35pm Little Voice
1 .30pm. 4.1 0pm, 6.20pm. 8.30pm
Very Bad Things 1 -25pm. 3.55pm.
G.05pm, 8.35pm

WALTON ON THAMES
THE SCREEN AT WALTON (01932-
252825) BR: Walton on Thames
Shakespeare In Love 3.10pm. 6pm.
8. 35pm Stepmom 2.50pm.
5 45pm. 8 15pm

WELL HALL

CORONET |0181-850 3351) BR:
Elrtum A Bug's Life 4pm. 6.30pm.
8.40pm Shakespeare in Love
3 30pm. 6pm. 8.30pm

W1LLESDEN

BELLE-VUE (0181-830 0822) ©■
Willesdcn Green A Bug's Ufe
4.45pm. 6.45pm. 9pm

WIMBLEDON

ODEON (08705 050007) ©South
Wimbledon A Bug's Ufe 1.45pm,
4.10pm. 6.30pm, 8.50pm Uttle
Voice 2pm. 4.1 5pm Practical Mag-
ic 1.35pm. 3.55pm. 6.20pm,
S.45pm Shakespeare In Love
1 2.20pm. 2.55pm. 5.35pm, 8.20pm
Ste pm om 2.30pm. 5.35pm. 8.25pm

WOODFORD

ABC 10181-989 3463) ©■ South
Woodford A Bug's Ufe 1. 40pm.
4pm. 6 20pm. 3.40pm Little Voice
2.10pm. 4.20pm. 6.30pm. 3.40pm
Shakespeare In Love 2.45pm.
5.30pm. 8.10pm

WOOLWICH

CORONET (0181-854 5043) BR:
Woolwich Arsenal A Bug's Life
4pm, 6.30pm. 8.40pm Very Bad
Things 3.55pm, 6.15pm. 8.45pm

WOOD GREEN

NEW CURZON (01 81 -347 6664) ©
Turnpike Lane AA AS Laut Chaiain
2pm Kuch Kuch Hota Hai 5.30pm
Zakhm 8.45pm

Cinema

Repertory

LONDON

CINE LUMIERE Quwnsberry Place,
SW7 (0171-838 2144/2146) On
Connait la Chanson (PG) 6.30pm,
9pm

ICA The Mall. SW1 (0171-930
3647) A Scene at die Sea (NC)
5pm. 7pm. 9pm A Matter of Life
and Death (PG) 6.30pm Black Nar-
cissus (PG) 9.15pm

NFT South Bank. SET 0171-928
3232 LA Confidential (18) 2.30pm
The Se cr et of Stamboul: The
Archive Presents... (NQ 6.15pm
Rush Hour (15) 6.30pm Female
Misbehaviour (18) 3.30pm Chinese
Roulette (NC) 8.45pm

PHOSUDC High Road. N2 (0181-444
6789) Hideous Knky (1 5) 2.15pm.
430pm. 6.45pm. 9pm

PRINCE CHARLES Leicester Place.
WC2 (01 71 -437 81 81 ) Dead Man’s
Curve (IS) 1 pm Velvet Goldmine
(1 8) 3.30pm The Negotiator (1 5)
6.30pm Fear and Loathing in Las
Vbgas (18) 9pm

RIVERSIDE STUDIOS Crisp Road.
W6 (0171-420 0100) Tott> die
Hero (15) 6.45pm + Character
8.40pm

BRIGHTON

DUKE OF YORK’S (01 273-602503)
Ttoo Girls and a Guy (1 8) 2.30pm.
6.45pm Hideous Kinky (15)
4.30pm, 8.45pm

BRISTOL

WATERSHED (0117-925 3845)
Hideous Kinky (15) 6pm. 8.30pm
Pecker (18) 6.05pm, 830pm

CAMBRIDGE

ARTS CINEMA (01223-504444)
Qasse de Neige (Nq ipm, 7pm
Hideous Kinky (15) 3pm. 9.15pm
The Opposite of Sex (18) 5pm

CARDIFF

CHAPTER ARTS CENTRE (01222-
399666) 76 Have and Have Not
(PG) 7.30pm Pecker (18) 8pm

NORWICH

CINEMA OTY (01603-622047)
Funny Games (18) 5.45pm Utde
Voice (15) 8.15pm

Cinema

COUNTRYWIDE

BRISTOL

ABC WHrTELADIES ROAD (01 1 7-
973 3640): A Bug’s Ufe (U): The
Prince of Egypt (U); Shakespeare
in Love (15): Star Trek: insurrec-
tion (PG); Very Bad Things (18)

ARNOLFIN1 (01 17-929 91 91 ); The
Mighty (PG); k (PI) (15)

ONEWORLD TTffi MOVIES (01 275-
83 1 099): The Adventures of Pfnoc-
chlo (U): Antz (PG); Babe: Pig in
ehe City (U): A Bug's Ufe (U): Bul-
worth (1 8): Bfzabeth (1 5): Enemy
of the State (1 5): Hum Aapke Dll
Mein Rehte Ham (U); Aa Ab Laut
Chalen (ps); Uttle Voice (15): The
Mask of Zorro (PG); Meet Joe Black
(12); Mrs Doubtfire (PG): The
Parent Trap (PG); Practical Magic
(1 2): The Prince of Egypt (U): Psy-
cho (15); Rush Hour (15); Shake-
speare to Loire (1 5) ; The Siege ( 1 5):
Star Trek: insurrection (PG): Step-
mom (12): very Bad Things (18)

ODEON (08705-050007); A Bug’s
Ufe (U): Dr DoUttle (PG): Enemy
of the State (1 5); Mulan (U); The
Parent TVap (PG); Practical Magic
(12); Stepmom (12)

ORPHEUS HENLEAZE (01 17-962
1 644); A Bug’s Ufe (U): Elizabeth
(15): Uttle Voice (1 5); The Parent
Trap (PG): The Prince of Egypt (U)

SHOWCASE (01 1 7-9723800); Ana
(PG): A Bug’s Life (U); Enemy of die
State (15): Ifideous Kinky (15): How
Stella Got Her Groove Back (1 5);
Uttle Voice (15): Living Out Loud
(1 5); The Mask of Zorro (PG); Meet
Joe Blade (1 2); The Opposite of Sex
(1 8): The Parent Trap (PG): Practi-
cal Magic (12); The Prince of Egypt
(U); Shakespeare fa Love ( 1 5); Star
Trek: Insurrection (PG): Stepmom
(12); Very Bad Things (18)

WARNER VILLAGE (0117-950
0222): Antz (PG); Babe: Pig in the
City (U): Blade (18): A Bug’s Ufe
(U); Enemy of the State (1 5); How
Stella Got Her Groove Back (1 5);
Uttle Voice (1 5); The Mask of Zor-
ro (PG); Meet Joe Black (1 2): Mu-
lan (U): The Parent Trap (PG):
Practical Magic (12): The Prfcioe of
Egypt (U); Rush Hour (1 5); Saving
Private Ryan (1 5): Shakespeare in
Love (15): The Siege (15): Star
Thek: Insurrection (PG); Stepmom
(12); Very Bad Things (18)

PORTSMOUTH

ABC (01705-823538): Antz (PG);
Bulworth (18): Meet Joe Black
(12): The Prince of Egypt (U);
Shakespeare hi Love (15): Star
Trek: Insurrection (PG): Two Girls
And A Guy (18)

ODEON (08705-050007); A Bug’s
Ufe (U): Dr DoOttle (PG); Enemy
of the State (1 5); George of the
Jungle (U); Mulan (U); The Parent
Trap (PG): practical Magic (1 2): The
Prince of Egypt (U): Small SoKHers
(PG); Stepmom (12): Very Bad
Things (18)

Ua 6 (0990-888990); Antz (PG);
Babe: Pig hi the aty (U): A Bug's
Ufe (U); Enemy of die State (1 5);
Uttle Voice (15): The Parent Hap
(PG): Practical Magic (12): The
Prince of Egypt (U): Saving Private
Ryan (l5):Shahespeareto Love (15):
Star Trek: Insurrection (PG); Step-
mom (12); Very Bad Things (18)

READING

ABC (0870-9020417); Antz (PG):
Babe: Pig in the aty (U): Meet Joe
Black (12); Shakespeare in Love
( 1 5): Star Trek: Insurrection (PGJ:
Very Bad Things (18)

FILM THEATRE (01 18-936 8497):
Henry Fool (18): Scream 2 (18):
Velvet Goldmine (18)

ODEON (08705-050007); A Bug’s
Ufe (U): Dr Doli trie (PG): Enemy of
the State (IS): Mulan (U); The Par-
ent Hap (PG); Practical Magic (12):
Small Sokflers (PG): Stepmo m [1 2)

SHOWCASE (0118-974 7711): A
Bug’s Ufe (U); Enemy of the
State (15): Hideous Kinky (15);
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
(15): Uttle Voice (15): living Out
loud ( 1 5): Meet Joe Black (1 2): The
Opposite of Sex (18): Practical
Magic (12); The Prince of Egypt
(U); Shakespeare In Love ( 1 5); Star
Trek: Insurrection (PG): Stepmom
(12); Very Bad Things (18)

SWINDON

ONEWORLD (01 793-420710): The
Adventures of Pinoeehio (U): Antz
(PG): Babe: Pig In the Oty (U): A
Bug's Ufe (U); Enemy of the State
(1 5): Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte
Hafri (U): Uttielfoice (15); The Mask
of Zorro (PG); Meet Joe Black ( 1 2):
Mehndl (PG): LesMberatries (12):
Mrs Doubtfire (PG); The Opposite
of Sex (18): The Parent Trap (PG):
Practical Magic (f2Jr The Prince of
Egypt (U): Shakespeare hi Love (1 5):
The Siege (1 5); Star Trek: Insur-
rection (PG): Stepmom (12): Very
Bad Things (18)

VIRGIN (0541-5551 34): Babe: Pig
in AeGCy (U); A Bug’s Life (U): Os-
lo Gate (NC): Enemy of the State
(15); Uttle Thrice (IS): The Mask of
Zorro (PG): The Parent Tfrap (PG):
Practical Magk (T2); The Prince of
Egypt (UJ: Small Soldiers (PG); Star
Thek: Insurrection (PG): Stepmom
(12); Very Bad Things (18)

Theatre

WEST END

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day; times and prices for the week;
running tunes include intervals. #
— Seats at all prices ft — Seats at
some prices O — Returns only
Matinees — [If: Sun. (3f: Tue. (4J:
Wed. [5]: Thur. (6): Fri. [7J: Sat

I ALARMS AND EXCURSIONS

Michael Ffeyffs nev comedy about
a dinn er parly which is interrupted
by mysterious messages stats Fe-
licity y»«fal and Josie Lawrence.
Gielgud Theatre Shaftesbury Av-
enue. W1 (0171-494 5065) *Pkx
Grc. Mon-Sat 7.45pm, J51I7] 3pm,
E19.50-C27.50 £1 2.50-£l 7.50

(restricted views). 130 mins.

• AMADEUS David Suchet stars
as Salieri in Peter Shaffer's ae-
datmed drama Okivflc The Cue 5E1
(0171-928 7616) BRf© Waterloo.
Mon-Sat 7.30pm. 14)17] 2.30pm.
£7.50-£30. 180 mins.

» BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Lav
kh family musical based on Disney’s
Cartoon version of the favourite fauy
tale. Dominion Theatre Tottenham
Court Road. Wl (0171-656 1888)
o Tott Q Rd. Mon-Sat 7.30pm.
(4H7) 2.30pm. £18.50-£35. 150
mins.

• BLOOD BROTHERS Willy RUS-
selTs long-running Liverpool musi-
cal melodrama. Phoenix Theatre
Charing Cross Road. WC2 (01 7 1 -369
1 733) © Leic Sq/Tott Ct Rd. Mon-
Sat 7.45pm. [5) 3.00pm. [7)
4.00pm. £1 1 .50- £32 .50. 165 mins.

ICAISLk^Wfehber’sniusicaiver-
fcion of TS EBat’s poems. New Lon-
don Theatre Parker Street. WC2
(0171-405 0072/cc 0171-404
4079) 6 Coven c Garden/Hoibom.
Mon-Sat 7.45pm, [3|[7J 3.00pm.
El 2.50- £35. 165 mins.

• CHICAGO Maria Friedman and
Peter Davison star in this hit Broad-
way musical. Addphi Theatre Maid-
en Lane. WC2 (01 7 1 -344 0055) O
Charing X. Mon-Sat 8pm. [4|f7[
3pm, £1 6- £36 (Inc booking fee). 130

0 COPENHAGEN New drama
from Michael Frayn about the dis-
covery of the atom. Duchess Theatre
Catherine Street. WC2 (0171-494
5075/CC 0171-344 4,444) ■©■ Covent
Garden. Mon-Sat 7.30pm, [5] [7]
2.30pm. E15-E30. 145 mins.

1 FILUMENA Judi Dench and
Michael Pennington star in Timber-
lake Wertenbaker’s new translation
of Eduardo de Filippo’s play. Pic-
cadilly Theatre Denman Street.
Wl (0171-369 1734) OPicc Ore
In rep. tonight 8pm. ends Feb 27,
£12-£30. 120 mins.

ft GREASE Energetic stage version
of the hit film. Cambridge Theatre
Eariham Street. WC2 (0171-494
5080) 6 Covent Garden. Mon-Sat
7.30pm. [4] [7] 3.00pm. £10-£30.
150 mins.

• AN IDEAL HUSBAND Christo-
pher Cazenove and Susannah York
in Peter HalTs acclaimed production
of Wilde’s comedy- Lyric Theatre
Shaftesbury Avenue. Wl (0171-
494 5045) <3 Picc Grc. Mon-Sat
7.45pm. (4) 3pm, (7) 4pm. £8.50-
£29.50. 165 mins.

ft AN INSPECTOR CALLS Stephen
Dauby's widely-acclaimed produc-
tion of JB Priestley's thriller Garrick
Theatre Charing Cross Road. WC2

(0171-494 5085) ■© Leic Sq. Mon-
Fri 7.45pm. Sat 8.15pm. [4j
2.30pm. [7] 5.00pm. E12-E29.50.
1 1 0 mins.

I INTO THE WOODS Sondheim
and Lapine’s acclaimed musical
based on fairytales. Donmar Ware-
house Eariham Street. WC2 (01 71 -
369 1732) ©■ Covent Garden.
Mon-Sat 7.30pm. (41(7) 2.30pm,
£1 5-E27.50.

ft UTTLE MALCOLM AND HIS
STRUGGLE AGAINST THE EU-
NUOfS Ewan McGregor stars as the
revolutionary activist in David Hal-
liwelTs drama. Comedy Theatre
Pancon Street. SW1 (0171-369
1731) ■©•Picc Grc/LeicSq. Mon-£-
8pm. [5JJ7J 3pm. £7 -£27.50.

• THE MEMORY OF WATER Al-
ison Steadman and Julia Sawalha
Star in this touching comedy about
three sisters returning home for
their mother’s funeraL Vaudeville
Theatre Strand. WC2 (0171-836
9987) BR/O Charing X. Mon-Sat
8pm. (51(7) 3pm. £8-£27.50.

• LES MJSERABLES Musical
dramatisation ofVictor Hugo's mas-
terpiece. Palace Theatre Shaftesbury
Avenue. Wl (0171-434 0909) ©
Picc Ore Mon-Sat 7.30pm. J5JI7J
2.30pm. £7-£35. 195 mins.

• MISS SAIGON Musical which re-
sets the Madam Butterfly tragedy to

Vietnam. Theatre Royal, Drury
Lane Catherine Street. WC2 (0171-
494 5060) ■© Covent Garden. Mon-
Sat 7.45pm. [4][7( 3.00pm.
E5.75-E35. 165 mins.

• THE MOUSETRAP Agatha
Christie's whodunnit St Martin's
Theatre Wesc Street. WC2 (0171-
836 1443) © Leic Sq. Mon-Sat

i 8.00pm. [3J 2.45pm. 17) 5.00pm.
£10- £24.50. 135 mins.

• OKLAHOMA! Maureen Lipman
stars in the National's aedaimed pro-
duction of Rodgers and Hammer-
stein’s cowboy versus farmhand
musical. Lyceum Theatre Welling-
ton Street WC2 (0870-606 3446/oc
606 6446) ■© Charing XfEmtwnk-
ment. Mon-Sat 7.30pm. [4] [71
2.30pm, E10-E35.

0 THE PHANTOM OF THE
OPERA Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
Gothic musicaL Her Majesty's The-
atre Haymarfcet, SW1 (0171-494
5400/cc 0171-344 4444) ©■ Picc
Circ. Mon-Sat 7.45pm. [41(71
3.00pm, £I0-£35. 150 mins.

heme and set m modern ^ay New
Ifort Shaftesbury Theatre Shaftes-
bury Avenue WC2 (07000-21 1221)
© Holbom/Tott Ct Rd. Mon-Sat
7.30pm, [4)[7j 3pm. £12.50-
£32.50. 160 mins.

ft RICHARD m Robert Lindsay stare

8S the historical villain. Savoy The-
atre Strand. WC2 (0171-836
8888/cc 01 7 1 -836 0479) O Char-
ing X/Embankment. Mon-Sat
7.30pm. (7| 2.30pm. E10-E27.50.

ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE

• OLIVIER: Peter Pan Stephen Ofiv-
eris music accompanies the tale of
the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up,
with Michael Biyant as the Story-
teller In rep, tonight 7.15pm. ends
20 Feb.

NT2000: The Front Page Hecht and
MacArthur’s fost-talking caricature of
the newspaper busses. Tonight 6pm,

• LYTTELTON: Betrayal Pinter’s
defining work depicts a menage a
tnris and stars Imogen Stubbs and
Douglas Hodge. In rep. tonight
7.30pm, wds 7 Apr. 90 mins.

» COTTESLOE: The Mot Nick
Darke's drama from Kneehigh The-
atre. In rep, tonight 7.80pm. contin-
uing in rep. Olivier 6 Lyttelton:
£8-£27. Cottesloe: E12-E17.
N 12 000: £4, cones £3. Day seats
from 10am. South Bank. SE1 (0171-
452 3000). e/BR: Waterloo.

ROVALSHAKE5PEARE OOMPHNY
O THE BARBICAN: The Tempest
Adrian Noble directs Shakespeare’s
romance drama. In rep, tonight
7.15pm. 165 mins.

• THE PIT: Shadows: Riders To
The Sea * The Shadow of The Glen
& Purgatory 'Ourfe-bill of drama by
WB feats and JM Synge. In rep.
tonight 7.15pm. aids 27 Mar. Bar-
bican Theatre. £5-£26. The Pic £11 -
£18.50. Barbican Centre, EC2
(0171-638 8891).

• THE YOUNG VIC; m of theCky

FbBaknff’s drama evpkw es
media control in the earty dqys of TV
and radio. In rep, tonight 7.15pm.
feting Vic: £5-£26. The Cut. SE1
(0171-928 6363). BR/fa Waterloo.

ft SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER Hit
1970s musical featuring legendary
songs fay the Bee Gees and starring
Adam Garda. London RdlacOuni Ar-
gyll Street. Wl (01 71 -494 5020) ©■
Oxford Grc. Mon-Sat 7.30pm, [4I[7]
2.30pm. E10-E32.S0. 135 mins.

• STARLIGHT EXPRESS Andrew
Lloyd Webber’s hi-tech roller-musi-
cal- Apollo Victoria Wilton Road,
SW1 (0171-416 6070) BR/0 Vic-
toria. Mon-Sat 7.45pm, (3|[7J
3.00pm. E12.50-E30. 150 mins.

•VASSA Howard Davies directs a
new stage version ofMazim Gorky’s
fafo of a matriarch and her down-
trodden family. Albery Theatre St
Martin’s Lane. WQ (0171-369
1 730) -B Leic Sq. Mon-Sat 7.30pm.
|5|^7J^ 3pm. ends 27 Mar, £5-

> THE WEIR Conor McPherson’s
ikama is set in Ireland and oesnunes
ideas of ghosts and angels. Royal
Court Theatre Downstairs (at the
Duke Of York’s) St Martin's Lane.
WC2 (0171-565 5000) e Leic
Sq'Chartng X. Mon-Sac 7.30pm,
[4 |p] 3.30pm. £5- £25. 90 mins.

• WEST SIDE STORY Brand new
production of Bernstein’s classic
rnnskal, attempting to recre a te the
feel of the original Broadway hit
Prince of Whies Theatre Coventry
Street. Wl (0171 -839 5972) ■©■ Le-
ic Sq/Picc Circ. Mon-Sat 7.45pm.
(5)171 3pm. £1 8.50-E35. 160 mins.

O WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND

Lloyd Wtebber’s new musical based
on the film of the same name. AM-
wydi Theatre Aldwych. WC2 (0171-
416 6000/cc 0171-836 2428} O
Hoi bom. Mon-Sat 7.45pm, (5)P)
3pm. E10-E32.50. 120 mins.

• THE WOMAN IN BLACK Su-
san HilTs chilling ghost story Fortune
Theatre Russell Street. WC2 (01 71 -
836 2238) O Covent Garden/Hol-
bom. Mon-Sat 8pm. [3] 3pm. p[
4pm, £8.50- £23.50. 110 mins.

First Gai t r t.ast Call

Theatre

BEYOND THE WEST END

ALMBDA TTEAniE Ceriam feung

Men Ittsr GUI's comedy of con-
temporary manners looks at the
sexuality and the modern man. Mon-
Sat 7.30pm. mats Sat 3pm, ends 20
Feb. £9-50 -£19.50. cones avail-
able. Almeida Street. N1 (0171-359
4404) « Angel.

GATE THEATRE Intimate Death
Sti^ adaptation of French psychol-
ogist Ite HemiezeFs diaries. Mon-Sat
7.30pm, ends 1 3 Feb. £10, cones £6.
Pembridge Road. W11 (0171-229
0706) e Not ting Hill Gate.

KING'S HEAD. ISLINGTON Gob
Er-Thke ITmt axxlfoaker Jason Or-
ange stars in this blistering but com-
ic attack on the bastions of art and
culture. Tonight 8pm, phone for
prices.

The Ifogfaui Monologues Eve Ekister
performs her own acriaimed hit Uic-
Sat 8pm. mats Sat & Sun 3.30pm,
ends 6 Mar. £1 2-£1 3. Upper Street.
N1 (0171-226 1916) ■O’Angd.

THEATRE

Countrywide

BARNSTAPLE

QUEEN’S THEATRE On the Raz-
zle Tbm Stoppard’s farce set in
1850s Vienna. Mon-Wed 2.30pm &
7.45pm, ends 10 Feb. £6-£10
Boutport Street (01271-324242)

BASINGSTOKE

HAYMARKET THEATRE The Seag-
ull Chekhov’s last play about a Russ-
ian family vainly trying to protect
their beloved estate as they birch to-
wards bankruptcy. Tue-Sat 7.45pm.
ends 13 Feb. E9.50-E15.50. cones
available

BATH

THEATRE ROYAL Macbeth Rufus
Sewell stars in Shakespeare's great
tragedy Mon-Wed 7.30pm, Fri-Sat
8pm, ends 13 Feb. £1 0-E23.50 Saw-
close (01225-448844)

BOSTON

BLACKFRIARS ARTS CENTRE The
Complete Works of WHJiam Shake-
speare (Abridged) Rerfaued Shake-
speare Company fast-forwards
through 37 plays. Tonight 7.30pm.
£8. cones £6.50 Spain Lane (01 205-
363108}

BRIGHTON

NOMEDIA The Garden of Habustan
Story nf a young Israeli whnpiywnv
ters an eWerty Palestinian man who
has returned to cfaun his bnd Tue-
Thur 8.30pm. ends 1 1 Feb. £7.50,
cones £6 Gardner Street (01273-
647100)

BRISTOL

THEATRE ROYAL Blues Brother
Soul Sisters Ruby Turner stars in
this fed-good soul musicaL Times
vary, phone for derails, ends 6 Mar.
Phone for prices King Street (01 1 7-
987 7877)

CHICHESTER

CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE
The Rocky HorrcrShow TVeng-

rock’n’roll musical. Mon-Thur
7.30pm. Fri & Sat 5.30pm 6
8.30pm. ends 1 3 Feb. £10- £2 2 -50
OakJands Park (01243-781312)

EXETER

EXETER PHOENIX SeD Out Fran-
tic Assembly’s latest multi-media

performance. Tonight 8pm. £8,
cones £6 Bradninch Place. Gandy
Street (01 392-667080)

YVONNE ARNAUD THEATRE The
Prisoner of Second Avenue Richard
Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason star in

NeilSimotfs comecty about amid-life
Crisis. Mon -Thur 7.45pm, Fri-Sat
^am. mats Thur 6 Sat. 2.30pm, ends
1 3 Feb. £10-£21 .50. Cooes available
MIRxook (01483-440000)

’ • First Call '

; WITHOUT A DOUBT the Bees&e Boys (right) are a
crinlrarfirtinn. Brash, toad and aggressive fighters for.
Tibetan freedom, they biwe managed, to de^op from
i being an e»^y ! -1980s fed to receded TOterans, of the

- music scene, Narfy”, the.toor sapporting ther

1 current albnin, continues wb^eiUcftafftestsnmmer, .
blasting ont atsucb tunes as the robotic ^Itdergalactic”. •

- SECC, Gla3goiD 3 May; NBC, Birmingham 5 May;
flfemNey Ar^ London 7 Ma£ Ifotton#^

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. - THE G0W5DY TEAM Trim nhatteng ed the etimicbounds
- . of British finriukrr with the ist TV series Goodness
: ■" Gratibais Me embark i^xhi on a five national tour at-
the eid of this^ month. Favourites like toe Bombay louts
/remain part of-the show, but are coropj^mwited fry
newcreatkms wtudi are- reassuring^ .adept at poltotg

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■" Best ConiedySeriesatthe 19M Corners' Awards and is : .
> set to contmue emoymg its weaith of success, •/ . /
Barbican, York 2l Feb; Bridgewater fiaR, Manchester,

■ 8 Mar; Sundetiand En qjtre, 9 Mar; Hadp%ey Empire,
Tjondan SWl,3Mar. 455484 .

HIGH WYCOMBE
WYCCUVSE SWAN Macbeth feEcsoo
Theatre’s physical production of
Shakespeare's dark and tragic krve
stray. Tonight 8pm. £9 St Mary’s
Street (01494-512000) |

MALVERN

MALVERN FESTIVAL THEATRE
Joseph and the Amazing Techni- '
color Dream coat Tim Rice and An- i
drew LJoyd Wetoer’a version of the
Bible story Tonight 730pm. ends 20
Feb. £14-£21^0. cones available
Grange Road (01684-892277)

MILFORD HAVEN
TORCH THEATRE The Woman In .
Black ChiDing story with a twist. I
Mon-Sat 7.30pm. ends 20 Feb. £8. >
cones £5 Sc Peters Road (01646-
695267) Milford Haven

NEWBURY

WATERMILL THEATRE More lb Be-
ing Heads Janet Brown, Patricia
England and Sophie Lawrence bring

Alan Bennett’s superb monolo gu es
to life. Tue-Sat 7.30pm. macs Thur ,
& Sat 2.30pm. raids 13 Mac £6- I
£1 6.50 Bagnor (01 635-46044)

NORTHAMPTON
ROYAL THEATRE Dombey and
Son Michael Napier Brown’s adap-
tation of Dickens’s novel Mon-Sat
7.30pm, mats Thur 2.30pm, Sat
5pm. ends 6 Mar. £4-£1 4.50 Guild-
hall Road (01604-632 533)

OXFORD

PLAYHOUSE THEATRE Making
Noise Quietly Robert Holman’s se-
ries of short pieces deputing en-
counters between strangers in tbe
shadow of wac Mon-Sat 7.30pm,
ends 13 Feb. £6-£13 Beaumont
Street (01865-798600)

PETERBOROUGH
KEY THEATRE Abigail’s Party
Steven Finder OBrooSsside’s Max
Pamhamj stars in vntp Leigh’s
comedy about sodal niceties mi97Ds
suburbia. Mon -Thur 730pm. Fri &
Sat 8pm. mat Thur 2.30pm. ends
1 3 Feb. £9-£1 1.50, cones available
Embankment Road (01 733-552439)

READING

THE MIU. AT SONN1NG Tiwo Dozen
Red Roses Comic love story set in
romantic Rome. Tue-Sat 8.15pm.
macs Sat 2.15pm. ends 20 Feb.
£21 -95-E3235 ind cflnner Son rang
Eye (0118-969 8000)

SALISBURY

SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE Blithe
Spirit Noel Coward’s comrafe about
a man haunted by tbe spirit of his
dead wife, is revived farhis centenary
Mon-Wed 7.30pm, Thur-Sat 8pm.
ends 13 Feb. £9-£15 Mai chouse
Lane (01 722-320333)

SEVENOAKS

STAG THEATRE Talking Heads
Three of Alan Bennett’s runny yet
touching and troubling studies of
tbe foMes of human nature. Wed-Sat
8pm, ends 13 Feb. £8.50. cones
£730 London Road (01 732-450175)

SOUTHAMPTON
MAYFLOWER THEATRE GoWBocks
and the Three Bears Frank Bruno,
Karl Howman and Emily Symons In
this star-stndded panto. Tue-Fri 7pm.
ends 14 Feb. E7.50-E17.50. cones
available Commercial Road (01 703-
711811)

NUFH&D THEATRE Earth and Sky
Thriller about a librarian who thinks
she knows her boyfriend well - until
there is a murder and his murky pest
is revealed. Sam Janus stars. Mon-
Thur 7.30pm, Fri-Sat 8pm, ends 27
Feb. £535-£12.S0. cones available
University Road (01703-671771)

S TR A TF O RD-UPON-AVON

SWAN THEATRE Trail us and Cres-
sida Shakespeare's d ep ic tio n of the
human spirit undermined by bloody
warfare. Tonight 7.30pm. ends 20
Feb. £5-E30 Waterside (0J789-
295623)

TEWKESBURY

ROSES THEATRE That’ll Be Che
Day Musical taking audiences
through 20 years of pop music.
Tonight 7.30pm. £12.50 Sun Street
(01684-295074)

WATFORD

PALACE THEATRE Darkness Falls
Double bin of sinister drama from
Jonathan Holloway. Mon-Thur
7.45pm. Fri 6 Sat 8pm. ends 20 Feb.
£4-£1 5.75 Clarendon Road (01 923-
225671)

WESTCUFF-ON-5EA
CLIFFS PAVILION Popcorn Emma
N(*le stars in Ben Elton’s satire on
cinema violence. Mon -Fri 8pm. Fri
6pm & 9pm. ends 1 3 Feb. £1 3.50-
£22.50 Station Road (01702-
351135)

PALACE THEATRE CENTRE
Women on the Verge of HRT Tiro
fortysnmething women discuss their
situation in life. Mon-Sat 8pm, ends
20 Feb. £5.50-£1 4.50. cones avail-
able London Road (01 702-342564)

WOKING

NEW VICTORIA THEATRE The Gin
Game Frith Banbury directs Joss
Ackland and Dorothy Ttxtin in this
sensitive and fiinny drama. Mon-Sat
8pm. mat Wed 2.30pm, ends 13
Feb. £6-£16. cones available Pea-
cocks Arts 6 Entertainments Cen-
tre (01483-761 144)

EXHIBITIONS CLASSICAL

BATH

MUSEUM OF COSTUME Primitive
Streak: Helen Storey and Dr Kate
Storey Collaboration between a
ftrehlnn designer and a biologist.
Mon-Sun 10am-5pm, ends 1 1 Apr.
£3.90. cones £3.50. child £2.90.
group cones. Assembly Rooms.
Bennett Street (01225-477789)

BRIGHTON

BRIGHTON MUSEUM AND ART
GALLERY Mary Potter (1900-
1981) Retrospective of the artist’s
iaigety Cpaative paintings. Mon. Tue.
Thur-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 2pm-
5pm. ends 28 Mar. free. Church
Street (01273-290900)

BRISTOL

ARNOLFBMI Accelerator Worfeby en
tntomntinnal group of COQtempO-

1 rary artists, indndlng Hilary Uoyd,
AkoSasao and Suzy Spence. Mon-Sat
10am-7pm. Sun 12noon-6pm, ends
1 28 Mar. free. Narrow Quay (01 IT-
929 9191)

LONDON

DESIGN MUSEUM Mini: Forty
fears or a Design loon Mini's de-
signed by celebrities mark tbe 40th
anniversary of the vehicle. Opens Feb
9, Ends 9 May. museum).

Modem Britain 1927-1939 Astaty
on the Important period after the
Great Whr including the work of
Frauds Bacon. Paul Nash and Bar-
bara Hiepwarth. Mon-Sun 1 1 30am-
6pm. ends 18 Jul. £5.25. cones £4
(to museum). Shad Thames. SE1
(01 71 -378 6055) Tower Hai/DLR:
Tower Gateway.

NATIONAL GALLERY In the Light
of Fra Angelico: Zanobl Stxozzi
Sixty eoddfanon exploring the paint-
ings of the 15th-caat my artist Ends
7 Mar.

Portraits by Ingres MQorexhmticn

c^toy'ffench^art^^w. The.
Thur-Sun T0am-6pm. Wed 10am-'
10pm, ends 25 Apr. £6. cones £4.
Wed E4 7pm-10pm. Trafalgar
Square. WQ (0171-747 2885) -O-
Charing Cross. Leicester Square.

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
John Kobal Photographic Portrait
Award Sixth annual exhibiiimi of se-
lected entries. Ends 14 Feb.

The Arc of Cooking: Barry Mars-
den Photographs of che&cbsplayed
in tbe cafe. Ends 1 Apr.

Gerald Scaife at the NPG Political
caricatures. Mon-Sat 10am-6pm,
Sun 12noon-6pm. ends 6 Apr, free.
St Martins Place. WC2 (0171-306
0055) -& Charing Cross.

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS
Monet In the 20th Century Eighty
piniSnp ma ri e to the 26 years after
1900. Mon-Thur. Sun 9am-6pm, Fri
6 Sat 9am-1 0pm. ends 1 8 Apr. £9.
cones £6. child (12-18) £3. child
(8-11) £1.50. Burlington House.
Piccadilly; Wl (0171-300 8000/cc
413 1717) ■©■Green Park/Pkxadil-
iy arcus.

TATE GALLERY Turner In the Alps
Works on paper made on Turner's
first Alpine trip to 18Q2. Ends 14 Feb.
In Celebration: The Art of the
Country House Paintings and sculp-
ture, including work fay Ca n a le tto ,
Stabbsati Holbein. Mon-Sun 10am-
5.50pm, ends 28 Feb. free. MiJIbank.
SW1 (01 71-887 8000) ■© Pimlico.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
Picasso’s Ladies: Wendy Ramshavu
Pneaous-metal jeweflery Ends 15
Feb.

E lsew here - Photographs from the
Americas and Asia: Henri Cartier-
Bresson LesseHmcrwn subjects by
the Wyearokf photographec Ends
12 Apr.

Sliver and Syrup: A Selection
from the Collection Wort by lead-
ing photographers throughout his-
tory. Mon-Sun 10am-5.45pm, ends
31 Jul. £5. cones £3. UBAO/dte-
abled/ mem s/after 4.30pm free.
Cromwell Road, SW7 (0171-938
8441) ©-South Kensington.

NORWICH

NORWICH CASTLE MUSEUM The
Nancy Balfour CoOealon Sculpture,

to the Contemporary Art Society.
Mon-Sat lOam-Spm. Sun 2pm-
5pm. ends 5 May. £2.40. cones
£1.60. child £1.10. family £5.90.
Castle Meadow (01603-223624)

PLYMOUTH

PLYMOUTH ARTS CENTRE Palmer
Paintings and poems by artist An-
nette Cbevallier and poet Pauline
pJunuaec created to repoase to
events in Sierra Leone. Mon-Sat
10am-8pm. Sun 6pm-8pm. ends 20
Feb, free. Looe Street (01752-
206114)

STIVES

ST ives tate GALLERY Displays
1998-9: F^rtnerships and Practice
Paintings and ceramics from the
second half of the century phis a se>

lection of contemporary work.
Quoit Montserrat Veronica Ryan
Marble sculpture linking St Ives
with Montserrat in the West Indies,
the artist's birthplace. Mon-Sat
1 lam-7 pm. Sun 1 tam-5pm. ends 1 1
Apr. £3.50, cones £2. Porthmeor
Beach (01736-796226)

WOLVERHAMPTON
WOU/BtHAMPTON ART GALLERY

Disasters of war CaBoc.Gova.Dht

Selections from three artists’ war
etching?, Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, ends
20 Mar, free. LJchfietd Street (01902-
552055)

LONDON

ST JOHN’S. SMITH SQUARE
Patricia MacMahon/Catfterine Wyn-
Rogers French songs by Chabrier
andF&ure- Ibnlghc 7pm. £S-£1 3.50.
Smith Square, SW1 (0171-22 2
1 061 ) ■©■ Westminster.

PURCELL ROOM Andrew Keeping
Guitar recital. Tonight 8pm. £6-£10.
cones £5. South Bank, SE1 (01 71 -
960 4242) BfV©- W&terioo.

WIGMORE HALL Pascal Roge
Frmch piano music. Today 1pm. £7.
cones £5.

Louis Demetrius AJvanis Including
Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata and
Chopin's Pour Bauades. Tonight
7.30pm. £8-£1 5. Wigmore Street. Wl
(0171-935 2141)eBond Street/Ox-
Ford Circus.

Dance

BRIGHTON

GARDNER ARTS CENTRE Hie
Lost Child Second part of the David
ra«gs Ensemble trilogy based on
Lewis Carrolfe Through the Looking
Glass. Tonight 7.45pm. £7.95-
£895. University of Sussex. Lewes
Road (01273-685861)

LONDON

PLACE THEATRE National Youth
Dance Company Presents: Spec-
trum A programme devised by six
leafing contemporary choreogra-
phers. Tonight 7.30pm. phone for
details. Duke’s Road. WC1 (0171-
387 0031 ) ■© Euston.

LITERATURE

CLACTON-ON-SEA
CLEAR WATERS RISING:
NICHOLAS CRANE Regular Dally
TWegraph travel writer Crane de-
scribes his walk from tbe Atlantic
coast of Spain to IstanboL Princes
Theatre Town Hall. Station Road
gl 255-423400) Tonight 7.30pm.

LONDON

CRACKMG THE CHILDREN'S AND
YOUNG ADUU MARKETS Kate WQ-
son. m a n ag in g director of Macmill a n
Children’s Books, offers advice to as-
piring writers. Conway Hall Red Li-
on Square WC1 (0)71-242 8032)
©■ Holbom. Tonight 7.15pm. £5.
mens free, women only.

THE OUDESSEY Storytellers Richard
Neville and Perse F^ett perform a
short and funny version of Homer's
epic, ferriano Meeting House Tor-
nano Avenue NW5 (01 71 -267 2751 )
■© Kentish Town. Tonight 8pm. £7.
cones £3.

MICHAEL LASKEY, FRANCES WIL-
SON AND ROY BLACKMAN An
evening of poetry with the three
writers. Troubadour Coffee House
Old Brampton Road SW5 (0171-737
0600) © Earls Court. Tonight 8pm,
£4.50. cones £3.50.

COMEDY

LONDON

BEARCAT COMEDY CLUB AT THE
TURK'S HEAD Andre Vtocent, satir-
ical Seouser Steve Gribbin, Keith
Dover: plus one other TBC. Tonight
9.15pm. Winchester Road. St Mar-
garets (0181-891 1 852) BR: St Mar-
garets. £8. mems £7.

THE MONDAY CLUB AT MADAME
JO JO'S The host of C4’s Gas Lee
Mack, Simon Munnery as The
League Against Tedium, Hal Crut-
tenden, Jon Ibrrens, MC Ross No-
He. Tonight 9pm, Brewer Street. Wl
(01 71-734 2473) © Piccadilly ar-
cus. £6. cones £5.

FASCINATING AIDA - BAREFACED
CHIC AT THEATRE ROYAL. HAY-
MARKET Cabaret trio DOlie Keane;
Adeie Anderson and Issy fen Rai^-
wyci. Mon-Sat 7.45pm, Sat mat
npm. ends 6 Mar. Haymarket, SWi

(01 <»PKiy Gr-

Cus. £10- £22.

BARRATT and fielding at hen
AND CHICKENS The 1998 Ftofer
“^Newcomer Award winners for
The Mqhly Boosh perform work in
progress. Tonight 8pm, St Paul's
Road. Nl (0171-704 2001) •©■
Highbury & Islington. £5. '

OXFORD

THE COMEDY STAGE AT O.X
CWIE King of the surreal one-Huers
MUton Jones, plus Ben Norris.
Tonight 8pm. New Road (01865-
250099) ’

Clubs

LONDON

POPCORN AT heaven Bubblegum
wunds from tbe pop undergound.
Tonight 10.30pm-3am. Charing
Cross Arches. WEers Street. WC2
(0171-930 2020) BR7© Charing
Cross, £1 . 6

THAT’S HOW IT IS AT BAR
RUMBA GiOes Feteraon and Ben
Wikfflz drop limit, jungle and hip

hop. Tomght 10.30pm-3.30am.

5haltesbury Avenue. Wl (0171-

287 2715) ^ Piccadilly Grcus £4

faints

HERNE BAY

'VALENTINES' An exhibition of \
torian and Edwardian Valentino
cards. Herne Bay Museum And
Gallery William Street
367368) Mon-Sot I Oom-4pm. ends
27 Feb. tiee.

LONDON

JEWISH ARTS FOCUS A wide nuige
of arts eiTails drawn fitvm Jewish cul-
ture. with theatre, music and come-
dy: The Bull Theatre Galtey Studios
High Street (0 IS I -449 0048.1 ©
High Barnet. Ends 1 4 Feb. phone for
demils.

SPRINT "99: FESTIVAL Of PHYS-
ICAL VISUAL AND UNUSUAL THE-
ATRE With humour, hnrrnr.
storvtellinq and dragons. Camden
People’s Theatre Hampste.id Road
NW1 (0171-9165878) ©Camden
Town. Ends 1 3 Feb. phone for de-
tails.

MUSIC

POP

BRIGHTON

ROBBIE WILLIAMS. THE DIVINE *'
COMEDY, THE SUPERNATURALS f
The entertainer's Ibm Jnnes-esque 1
show, with suave pop and indie-cred
supports. Brighton Centre Kings
Road (0870-900 9100) Tonight
7.30pm. £18.50

BRISTOL

INDIAN ROPEMAN. SPACE
RAIDERS Cutting edge big beat
from the Skint Record label The
Thekla The East Mud Dock. The
Grove (01 17-929 3301. CC 74 1969)
Tonight 9pm. £5.50.

CAMBRIDGE

DRUMMERS OF BURUNDI High-
ly influential African drum troupe.
Com Exchange Wheeler Street
(01223-357851) Tonight 8pm,
phone for prices.

EXETER

TERRORVISION Bradford’s pop
metal collisioaists. University of
Exeter (01392-263528) Tonight
8pm. £10.

SALISBURY

HEATHER NOVA. NAOMI Bermu-
dan singeraongwriter in the Tori
Amos and Sheryl Crow idiom. Sails- ,
bury Arts Centre Bedwin Street (f ■
(01 722-321 744] Tonight 8pm. £6.

LONDON

SIU/ERCHAIR. NOJAHODA. CAY
Australian indi crock trio headline a
bill of fast -rising prospects. Electric
Ballroom Camden High Street NW1
(01 71 -485 9006) O Camden Town.
Tonight 8pm. £8.50.

CARTOON. J LEAGUE, .LEADER
Tfelsh weird-pop indie headliners.
Upstairs at the Garage Highbury
Comer N5 (0171-607 1818/cc
0171-344 0044) BR/O Highbury A
Islington. Tonight 8pm. phone for
prices.

BELINDA CARLISLE Acoustic set
from the recent album, A Woman and
a Man. Jazz Cafe Parkway NW1
(0171-916 6060) ■© Camden Town.
Tonight 8pm. £1 5-£1 7.50.

JUD1E TZUKE Glamorous 1970s
folk-ballad superstar singer. Queen
Elizabeth Hall South Bank Centre
SE1 (0171-960 4242) BR/O Wa-
terloo. Tonight 7.45pm. £12.50.

Music $

JAZZ, WORLD, FOLK V

BRISTOL

SEVERN JAZZMEN Local trad out
“Jfeature international bassist Lea ..
SkraLOId Duke King Street (01 1 7-
927 7137) Tonight 8.30pm. free.

LONDON

GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWL-

INGS Bluegrass-eountrv duo tour the
Among The
throngs. Dingwatis CamdenLock,
Chalk Farm Road NW1 (0171-267
l 5 ™) ** Camden Town. Tonight
7.30pm. £i i .

RAOLB. calladine JFowerfuljaa,
R&B and soul vocalist Dover Street
""w Bar Dover Street Wl (0171-
^ Green Park. Tonight
1 0pm. £24.95 Inc meal,

ESBORN SVENSSON TRIO Ac- '
oahnea Swedish plan) ttio. Ptoa Efr
press Jazz Oub Dean Street Wl
(0171-439 8722) <© Tottenham
Court Road, tonight 9pm. £12.50.

PER TEXAS JOHANSSON Wejjh
“toeued bluesmao from SwedtoEV-
Ptoa Wi the Park Knlghtsbridge
SWI (0171-235 5273) ^ H^e
Markdorner. Tonight 9.15pm &
11.15pm. IS. adv £16.

FWRA PURIM/AIRTO MOREIRA.
ARNE DOMNBWS Brazilian f««
^tirtion. stqiport set from leading
^edish saxman. Ronnie Scott’s
Wth SUeet Wl (0171-439 0747}

G Leicester Square, tonight 9.30pm.
£15. mems £4 (Mon-Thu); £20.
mems £8 (Fri-Sat)

JHE HUNGRY ANTS Richard
Jairnurst’s neobop and took quartet
commencing new touzVorteK Stote
Newington Church Street Nlfi .
(0171-250 6516) BR: Stoke New-
mgton. tonight 9pm, £5. cones £4. ■

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PICK OF THE PAY

ANNA PAVORD, this paper’s
gardening correspondent, has
plucked the best parts of her
new booh, The Tulip (9.45am
R4FM), to read this week. This
definitive history describes the
fanatical devotion the flower
has inspired since it arrived in
Western Europe 400 years ago.

Given the current concern
about fake TV docu-soaps, Two
Flies on the Wall (8pm R4), the

edited highlights of six months
spent “observing the observers”,
couldn’t be more tiznety. Paul
Watson attempts to make a
distinction between the stitch-up
and cutting-room manipulation.

In Mixing It (10.45pm R3),
Velvet Underground lynchpin
John Gale {right) talks about
musical influences from his
boyhood onwards.

Dominic Cavendish

texts by William Blake, who has in-
spired a wide and surprising
range of songwriters.

10.45 Mixing 1L John Cale shares
his choice of three key tracks with
Mark Russell and Robert SandalL
See Pick of the Day.

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745 Front Row. Fifty years after
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Arthur MiDerls downtrodden hero
Willy Loman.

7.45 Speaking for Themselves.
Ten dramatised excerpts from the
letters of Britain's great wartime
leader and his wife Clementina
taken from the newly published
collection edited by their daughter,
Mary Soames. With Alex Jennings
as Winston, Sylvestra le Touzel as
Clementina and Helen Bourne as
the narrator. Part 6.

8.00 NEWS; Two Flies on the
WalL The first in a two-part look at
the creation of a fly-on-the-wall
documentary as the team who
make one of television's most pop-
ular soaps, ‘Vets in Practice', get a
taste of their own treatment. Nar-
rated by David Stafford. See Pick
of the Day.

8430 In Business, ‘It's Your Line'.
Mobile phone use is exploding
and there is much more to come.
Peter Day explores a new obses-
sion.

9.00 NEWS; Nature. A look at the
recipe for a good garden - the key
ingredient being the understand-
ing of its ecology.

9430 Start the Week. Jeremy
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10.00 The World Tonight With
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10.45 Book at Bedtime: Mark
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tLOO Radio 4 AppeaL Tony
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RUPERT EVERETHS career was
recently resurrected following
bis performance as Julia Roberts'
gay chum in My Best Friend's
Wedding, but Another Country
UOpm FflmFbur) was the film
that launched h'rm stardom. In
MarekKanievska’swdl-observed
film adaptation of the hit stage-
play by Julian Mitchell, Everett
is excellent as a figure based
on the spy Guy Burgess. Holed up
to a Moscow flat he reveals to a
journalist how homosexuality and

bullying at English public school
In the 1930s eventually caused his
disillusionment with society and
his defection to Russia.

The talented and beautiful
Michelle Pfeiffer (right) falls
exactly into the category of
Femmes Fatales upm Sky
Moviemax). Her delicate allure
in movies such as Married to
the Mob, Frankie and Johnny
and Dangerous Liaisons is
examined in this profile.

James Hampton

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489243) 64M) About Mrs LesSe (1954)
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INDEPENDENT PURSUITS
Chess

JON SPEELMAN

THE PETROFf or Russian Defence
- 1 e4 e5 2 NfS Nffi - was once
thought of as a relative safe option.
Howevei; Black's immediate
counter-attack, which in some sense
claims immediate field equality, can
instead be seen as mildly hubristic
or an over-assessment of bis
chances. So it is that this once
placid opening has today devel-
oped a huge bod}’ of theory, some of
it immensely sharp.

Artur Yiisupov is a genial bear of
a man, ferociously concentrated at
the chessboard but utterly charm-
ing away from it Born in Moscow,
he has since the break-up of the old
Soviet Union made his home in Ger-
many. A world expert on the Petroff,
Yusupov has now written a massive
treatise on it (in English) for the Ger-
man publishing house Oltns - The
Petruff Defence - £20.

In 434 packed pages, Yusupov
treats the opening in three distinct
ways: tabular analysis as in opening
encyclopaedias, illustrative games
and - this an innovation forme and
an excellent idea - numerous ex-
ercises to help the reader assimilate
the often highly volatile material

With this excellent format, the
book ■will age considerably more
slowly than habitual opening works:
just as weQ, for Yusupov. who has ob-
viously put in a huge amount of
work, was unlucky in that 01ms took
a considerable time to process it.

Rather than an example from the
book, here instead is another pos-
ition from last weekend's Bundes-
liga showing Yusupov’s innate
common sense and kindness.

In the diagram, Nils Michaelsen
is Black to {day; Christian Gabriel
is White.

S

X

White has just captured a bish-
op on (5. Both sides played their next
move almost instantly:

1 ...Kg3 2 Ro6 Kxlis:

Not 2 ...KJ2 3 Ke-t e2 4 Kf4 elQ 5
Rxel Kxel 6 Kg4 K£! 7 Kx!\4 Ktt S
Kg5 and wins.

3 Rxe3+

If 3 Ke4 Kg2 t Kxe'J h'J 3 Rgc-r
Kfl! draws - but nut 3 . . .Kill U Kfe
h2 7 KgJ Kgl S RaG hlN- 9 KTi
winning.

3 .. . Kg2 4 Ke4 h3 3 Kf4 hi’ fi RtS2-
Kh3!

Drawing but not 0 . ..Kgf.“.' 7 Kg3
lilN-f- S Kt3 Kfl 9 Rg2

Rut Yusupov showed that While
could have won with 2 Ke4! e2 3
RI3+ Kg2 4 Rri Kf2 5 Kf4 elQ C
Rxel Kxel 7 Kg4 etc. So 1 ...Kga?'.’
was a gross blunder - 1 ...Kg2
would hare brought about tiie game
continuation.

Yusupov got right to the heart of
the matter. There was no need to
rush. Whatever the result it will
assuredly be over in just a few
more minutes; so in any game you
should be able to withstand the
tension, keep calnL and play the best
moves mailable.

Bridge

Alan hiron

“YOU NEEDED the nine of clubs
instead of the eight!" observed
South after converting a small plus
score into a small minus on this
deal North tactfully refrained from
suggesting that an alternative line
of play would have justified his
partner’s decision to bid on...

South opened One Heart, West
doubled and North redoubled -
not everyone's choice of bid. East
bid Three Diamonds preemptively
and South, expecting his partner to
, be short in hearts, tried Fbnr Dia-
monds (although what this was
intended to achieve is still a mys-
tery to me) but he was reassured
when North was able to bid Cbur
Hearts. It was not over yet - East
tried what would have been a good
sacrifice with Five Diamonds, but
South went on to Five Hearts to end
the auction.

West started with two top dia-
monds and, after ruffing, declarer
drew trumps and tested the spades
with the king and ace. When they
failed to break (surprise, surprise!)
he led 4 Q to West's ace. West exit-
ed with * J to dummy's king and
now declarer ruffed dummy’s last
diamond and played off his last
trump. West retained his spade
guard and East was able to look
after the third round of clubs with
his nine, and so South ended a
trick short

North-South game;
dealer South
North

♦ K853
TQJ6
0765

♦ KS3

East

♦ 9

T9 5 2
CQJ 109 3
+9 5 2

West
♦ J 1072

0AK4
+AJ764
- -South
♦A 064
CAK 10743
OS

♦ Q 10

Rather than rely on what was an
unlikely spade break (with some
residual squeeze chances). South
had an alternative which would
have succeeded as the cards lay.
Suppose, after drawing trumps, he
leads * 10 from hand? West pre-
sumably covers with his jack and
+K wins. Now a spade to the ace
drops the nine from East and
South plays off his remaining
trumps. West must come down to
♦ J 10 7 +A and now he can be
thrown in with +A to lead away
from his spades.

Concise crossword

No3840 Monday 8 February

ACROSS

I Feigning (8)

5 Joint (4)

9 Error (5)

10 Soldier (7)

II Fiingi (10)

14 Not having an equal chance
(13)

16 Voice recorder (10)

20 French counlry house (7)

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23 Draws (8)

DOWN

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2 Ovation (8)

3 Encounters (5)

4 Conservation boih' tSj5l
6 Back of neck (41

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12 Person uncertain about claims
of religion (8)

13 Indolence (S)

15 Chauffeur (61

17 Boy's name (5)

18 Religious picture (4)

19 Group of musicians (4 )

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